Whatever they say I am, that's what i'm not -
David Garner
19th Jan - 15th March 2008

‘If the Holocaust prompted the recognition of the phenomenon of anti-Semitism, and civil rights and anti apartheid movements had forced the acknowledgment of racism then unfortunately Islamophobia remains largely unrecognised in today’s society. In a climate of insecurity and tension it is imperative to expose the certainties and reach understanding. ‘Whatever they say I am, that’s what I’m not’ – is an attempt to understand this realisation and encourage debate.’
David Garner 2007

Writer and art critic Hugh Adams in his book ‘Imaging Wales’ describes Ebbw Vale born artist Garner as amongst the few artists whose work is quite “unambiguously political.” Adams writes “As benefits one whose background is in industrial South Wales he uses objects both salvaged and bought to reflect on society and its organizations. David Garner’s work, as well as being a repudiation of society’s grosser consumeristic aspects, deals with a peculiarly Welsh scarring, the results of exploitation through social organisms and industrial processes which only the naïve suppose not to have lineal descendants in today’s Wales.”