Artist defends Churchill video at National Portrait Gallery after being accused of ‘barefaced lie’

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:43:48 GMT

Helen Cammock says her comments blaming wartime leader for Bengal famine were intended to create ‘dialogue’ A Turner prize-winning artist accused of telling a “barefaced lie” about Winston Churchill in a video piece installed at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has defended her work, saying it was intended to create a “dialogue” about figures in the gallery’s collection.Helen Cammock’s 40-minute moving image piece called Persistence has been at the centre of a row about the role Churchill played in the Bengal famine of 1943. Continue reading...

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