DOLE by nick-e melville
This catalogue accompanies: “DOLE” an exhibition by nick-e melville 6 – 16 November 2013 Interviewroom11, Edinburgh.
This catalogue accompanies:
“DOLE” an exhibition by nick-e melville
6 – 16 November 2013 Interviewroom11, Edinburgh.
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Letter<br />
(pages 62/67)<br />
A letter written to Iain Duncan Smith MP, then Secretary of State for Work and<br />
Pensions, which was copied to my local MP, Sheila Gilmore, and Kenny MacAskill,<br />
MSP, then Cabinet Secretary for Justice. The letter was an attempt to prove<br />
the impossibility of getting <strong>by</strong> on £71.70, the weekly amount of Job Seekers’<br />
Allowance.<br />
Replies<br />
(pages 68/69; 70)<br />
My letter was sent to allow 21 days for a response – the time indicated <strong>by</strong> Duncan<br />
Smith’s office for a reply – which coincided with the opening of the exhibition. I<br />
received timeous replies from MacAskill (note hilarious typo in the third sentence<br />
of his reply) and Gilmore. A very standard reply from the office of the MP for<br />
Chingford, addressing none of my questions, did not arrive until the very end of the<br />
exhibition, two weeks after it should have.<br />
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