Physical & Online Exhibitions
Although nightclubs such as Printworks and the nighttime industries have been hugely impacted due to COVID-19 lockdown measures, we worked in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, utilising innovative technologies such as Street View 360 degree photography to develop an online immersive lightbox exhibition which can be walked-through and explored. The lightboxes are now held in storage ready for the reopening of the club later in 2021.
The world's first digital lightbox exhibition launches in the iconic nightclub, Printworks. Journeying through the scenes, sounds and styles of club culture from the flyer to the queue and onto the dancefloor, this collaboration with Museum of Youth Culture & Google Arts & Culture is an immersive large scale multi-disciplinary exhibition fusing cutting edge image capture technology with the world's largest youth culture archive. Working with Google to reimagine the physical exhibition in an essentially digital world, the exhibition leads with an interactive walkthrough of photography, sound and video, incorporating work from Gavin Watson, Peter Walsh, Tristan O'Neil and British Pathé, offering a glimpse into a nightclub during lockdown and what the future of nightlife might look like.
Currently housed here, the exhibition is due to join Google Streetview as part of a major Google Arts & Culture project in March 2021.
In November and December 2020, we launched a pop-up exhibition celebrating photographs and social media posts gather as part of the project in a retain unit in Carnaby. Grown Up in Britain was held at 14-16 Fouberts Place, Carnaby, London.
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The world's first digital lightbox exhibition launches in the iconic nightclub, Printworks. Journeying through the scenes, sounds and styles of club culture from the flyer to the queue and onto the dancefloor, this collaboration with Museum of Youth Culture & Google Arts & Culture is an immersive large scale multi-disciplinary exhibition fusing cutting edge image capture technology with the world's largest youth culture archive. Working with Google to reimagine the physical exhibition in an essentially digital world, the exhibition leads with an interactive walkthrough of photography, sound and video, incorporating work from Gavin Watson, Peter Walsh, Tristan O'Neil and British Pathé, offering a glimpse into a nightclub during lockdown and what the future of nightlife might look like.
Currently housed here, the exhibition is due to join Google Streetview as part of a major Google Arts & Culture project in March 2021.
In November and December 2020, we launched a pop-up exhibition celebrating photographs and social media posts gather as part of the project in a retain unit in Carnaby. Grown Up in Britain was held at 14-16 Fouberts Place, Carnaby, London.
Despite lockdown restrictions, we were able to showcase project progress in Central London by exhibiting the work as part of a Museum shop fundraising retail project. This was also a brilliant opportunity to trial and test new technologies in terms of 360 capture and online exhibition tours via social media.
In the basement space at 14-16 Fouberts we housed an exhibition How We Were by renowned Shirley Baker.
Harking back to the community spirit and togetherness of yesteryear, How We Were journeys through the streets of Manchester through the eyes of renowned documentary photographer, Shirley Baker (1932 - 2014). Documenting the playfulness and tender grit of 1960s British streets, Shirley’s post-war world appears in extreme contrast to British life today whilst we grapple within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst children play in wartime rubble and mothers fluster past graffiti, this exhibition of remarkable darkroom handprints and ephemera remind us of the importance of human expression and the resilience of community during these sanitised times.
Virtual Exhibition:
https://poly.google.com/view/fiWSoY-8YMZ
Instagram Live Discussion with daughter of Shirley Baker:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLKh6Yenzkh
Alongside this we held micro-exhibitions in all x5 Fred Perry stores showcasing public submissions of youth culture memories received by the public during lockdown in;
- Fred Perry Camden
- Fred Perry Covent Garden
- Fred Perry Nottingham
- Fred Perry Brighton
- Fred Perry Liverpool
In the basement space at 14-16 Fouberts we housed an exhibition How We Were by renowned Shirley Baker.
Harking back to the community spirit and togetherness of yesteryear, How We Were journeys through the streets of Manchester through the eyes of renowned documentary photographer, Shirley Baker (1932 - 2014). Documenting the playfulness and tender grit of 1960s British streets, Shirley’s post-war world appears in extreme contrast to British life today whilst we grapple within the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst children play in wartime rubble and mothers fluster past graffiti, this exhibition of remarkable darkroom handprints and ephemera remind us of the importance of human expression and the resilience of community during these sanitised times.
Virtual Exhibition:
https://poly.google.com/view/fiWSoY-8YMZ
Instagram Live Discussion with daughter of Shirley Baker:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLKh6Yenzkh
Alongside this we held micro-exhibitions in all x5 Fred Perry stores showcasing public submissions of youth culture memories received by the public during lockdown in;
- Fred Perry Camden
- Fred Perry Covent Garden
- Fred Perry Nottingham
- Fred Perry Brighton
- Fred Perry Liverpool
Fred Perry Exhibitions
Printworks Exhibition
