After the End of History offers a picture of working-class life today.

The counter-cultural energies of the 1980s, very often powered up by the alternative ideologies embodied by Communism, and a reaction against Thatcherism, produced a collective, coherent and politically engaged generation of working-class artists. But after the so-called “End of History” was announced in the 1990s, what became of working-class culture and the working class creative? What kind of images has working-class life produced in the last 35 years? After The End of History aims to illuminate these questions.

We are especially excited to have loaned Richard Grassick prints from the AmberSide Collection to his prescient touring exhibition.

After the End of History is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition, presented in partnership with Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, ffotogallery, Cardiff.