Ella Murtha looks at her mother’s work on display at Tate Britain. Tish Murtha created portraits of working-class life in Newcastle’s west end in the 1970s and 80s.Ella Murtha looks at her mother’s work on display at Tate Britain. Tish Murtha created portraits of working-class life in Newcastle’s west end in the 1970s and 80s.
“Primarily with Tish being a working-class woman and a single mother – that was the defining reason why she couldn’t sustain a career,” says Paul Sng, the director of Tish. “It’s much harder for women to progress in the arts to this day.”Tish Murtha was not able to sustain a career in photography but her work has been ‘rediscovered’ in recent years.In 2022, a study showed that the proportion of working-class artists had shrunk from 16.4% for those born between 1953 and 1962 to just 7.
Hardy – who was the eldest of seven children and grew up in a working-class family in Blackfriars, London – is arguably one of the most versatile British photographers of the 20th century. But it was his work with Picture Post, where he covered all aspects of working-class life from mining communities and rural poverty to the diversity of Cardiff’s Butetown that is the most celebrated.Karen McQuaid, the senior curator of the Hardy show, said: “He obviously had a huge abundance of talent but also knew what to do with it and was entrepreneurial and hungry for commercial success as well as anything else.
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