We are delighted to announce Grant Holden’s ‘Who Would Clean a Car Park?’ as the winner of this quarter’s John Byrne Award!

WHO WOULD CLEAN A CAR PARK?

By Grant Holden

 
“During my final year at art college, I lived near a multi-storey car park in the centre of Edinburgh. One day, I heard a brush being swept there. At the time, I was developing ideas for my graduation film about a cleaner and his (talking) brush. Never had I thought a car park would have to be swept. When doing research for the film, I came across a quote in a report by the Equality & Human Rights Commission on the cleaning sector. A worker said that cleaners were frequently “the first to be blamed and the last to be thanked”. That really stuck with me: what would it mean to carry out a job that society relies upon yet never fully appreciates? …”

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