Iain Hickson

7/1/1981 - 2/12/2000

These pages were put together principally in response to requests for photographs of Iain from a number of his friends.

In addition to the photo album we have included a couple of other pages which carry some impressions of Iain's life and information about the music which accompanied it.

Any communication regarding these pages may be emailed to Mark Hickson, Iain's father, at mark@prioritas.co.uk

Everything is connected...

A number of folk have been wondering about the postcard Iain kept on the wall above his desk. In January 2002 I visited the Tate (that's Tate Britain, not Tate Modern). While I was in a room of contemporary photography a large group of international students entered behind me. They were asked by their lecturer to consider a group of three photographs and write their impressions. Intrigued, I turned to see what they were examining and found myself looking at what, to me, was 'Iain's picture'! It is a photograph by Gillian Wearing (who won the Turner prize in 1997). In 1992 and 1993 she asked a number of passers-by if they would be willing to write 'something, anything' on a piece of card and have their photograph taken as they held it. The result was a work entitled, 'Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say'. The photographs are published as a book, ISBN 1 870282 07 8. Tate Britain sells a colour postcard of the 'Everything is Connected ...' image. You can click on the image here to virtually visit it in the Tate.