Accession Code: wu0785 Title: The Poor Date completed: 1998 Medium: Prints Material: Laminate paper on panel Height (mm): 827 Width (mm): 585 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: n/a Location Name: Social Sciences Building Location Description: Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies Location Floor: 0

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme on behalf of Mead Gallery, University of Warwick with funds from the Arts Council Lottery, 2001

This work is part of a suite of prints by Johnny Spencer whose work featured in the British Art Show of 2000. They present research into aspects of our social and cultural life - from hairstyles to economic groups. Information is gathered from a wide range of sources and re-presented as an authoritative examination of the subject.

These works raise questions about academic practice and the way that we collect information to define and theorise both small and vast areas of experience.