As if by magic, the arrival of Nadav and his wife Nicole, on Thursday 30 April, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, coincided with the 100 days of Obama… It also coincided with a large group of students from Matthew Boulton, a photographer from the Birmingham Post, 40 schoolchildren and some foul weather. So we all found ourselves answering questions about the show and the portraits and then went out and dodged the rain as we all ran around the city, doing the things we had to do whilst Nadav was in town, stopping for some shopping at the Custard Factory and a lunch in two parts at the Ikon gallery. In the brief moment we had a ten minute break, on arriving back at BMAG to await BBC Asian Network, we all became briefly obsessed with imitating the portraits and did our own photoshoot, some of which will be revealed a little later in this story. We did of course, end the day with Nadav and Nicole, in a curry house on the Ladypool Road….
The verdict from Nadav was good, he enjoyed seeing his show, and his picture of him almost as Eugene Kang was published in the Birmingham Post on Friday 1st May. Watch for the same paper on Tuesday next, when Arts Editor Terry Grimley tells us what he thinks of Obama’s People….