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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nicole Wootton-Cane

Winston Churchill film withdrawn from National Portrait Gallery over famine row

The artist behind a National Portrait Gallery installation that sparked a row over Sir Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine has withdrawn her work.

Helen Cammock said there is “an incredible pressure on artists and arts institutions to bend to external pressure”, and that the decision to remove the work “has not been taken lightly”.

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