Elijah Pierce: the woodcarver who grappled with civil rights and racism

A new exhibition celebrates the work of an American artist who used wood to tell a visual history of a country filled with injustice and inequality

In 1974, the American artist Elijah Pierce sat in his barber shop carving out a wooden figure as he told a documentary film-maker: “Your life is a book and every day is a page, you’re writing your fate as you go along.”

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