Windows of Creativity, Shelagh Delaney
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Windows of Creativity, Shelagh Delaney
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 2 Nov 2020
This portrait, by mosaicist Mary Goodwin http://www.marygoodwinmosaics.co.uk/ , is at the centre of a piece (Image]) displayed at the entrance to the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel on Oxford Road as part of the “50 Windows of Creativity” art trail. The title for the work is “Do you Know Who I Am?” and it is described as “a triptych of historical Mancunians (famous by name, less famous by face)”. We are not told who they are but an internet search turned up this photo of Shelagh Delaney https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/revenge-sweet-salford-taste-honey-playwright-shelagh-delaney-9466910.html in the Independent. Delaney was born and brought up in Salford so is not strictly a Mancunian by birth but if you stretch the definition of Mancunian to include “…. associated with Manchester” then the adjective probably fits. Born in 1938, she died in 2011. She is most famous for her debut work, “A Taste of Honey” which was first performed in 1958 and adapted as a film in 1961.
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