She's an artist, she don't look back

I took my mum to Tate Liverpool today.

Henry Tate began a sugar refining business in 1869 in Liverpool and used part of his subsequent wealth to found the Tate Gallery in London in 1897. His business merged with that of his rival Abram Lyle in 1921 and Liverpool's Tate and Lyle plant finally closed in 1981.

The opening of Tate Liverpool in 2008 came far too late to compensate for the loss of jobs at the refinery of course but it did at least bring some of Henry Tate's fortune back home - well, back home to Liverpool, if not to Barbados where the sugar actually came from in the first place... Tate Barbados anyone?

Speaking of 'Bringing It All Back Home' - fans of Bob Dylan's 1965 album of that name and of D.A. Pennebaker's documentary of Dylan's UK tour of the same year, 'Don't Look Back' - will probably love the subject of today's blip as much as I do.

This is only a tiny part of 'Don't Look Back' (1999) by Fiona Banner, a piece in which she tries to describe the entire Pennebaker film from memory. It's currently at Tate Liverpool as part of a show curated by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy called 'The Sculpture of Language'.