Work created by an international artist, born and raised in the Isle of Man, has gone on display at the Manx Museum.

Entitled ’The Works’, the retrospective exhibition pays tribute to the 50-year career of Kevin Atherton, which has involved pioneering work in film, video, performance art, and a ground-breaking piece of public sculpture.

However, unlike most retrospective exhibitions, Kevin has revisited some of his old works and re-worked and re-presented them to allow him to look again at the themes he was exploring when he first made them.

’Boxing Re-Match’ sees Kevin produce a video of himself as a young man, re-edited to fight against himself as an older man - a humorous look on the duel between youth and experience. Similarly he has returned to one of his earlier works, ’In Two Minds’ to create a video conversation, again between himself as a young and older man, both in human and puppet form. A lot of his work examine themes of identity and self and a notion that Kevin is fond of saying, that ’we all come from somewhere’.

Kevin was born in Douglas in 1950 and was one of a number of widely regarded artists who came through the doors of the Douglas School of Art in the late 1960s.

He took up teaching and lecturing posts in Slade Collage and the Royal Academy of Art and the Chelsea College of Art, where he established new courses in visual media and fine arts.

His own work has seen several installations, including a series of Iron Horses along a railway line, depicted in a book on show in the exhibition, and ’Platforms Piece’, the creation of three bronze sculptures at Brixton Railway Station, believed to be the first public sculptural representations of black British people in the UK.

Placing the exhibition in the Manx Museum has an extra relevance for Kevin, with the artist explaining: ’There were two places that saved me when I was a kid growing up in the Isle of Man, one was the Manx Museum that showed me where I came from and the other was the public library in Ridgeway Street which showed me who I could become. I regularly visited both after school and remember engaging with fiction in one and art in the other.’

’The Works’ is on display at the museum gallery until Sunday, June 20.