New Langdale Photographers Exhibition at The Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool, Lancashire.
Runs Jan - 30th March 2024
SHARING SPACE: ARCHITECT JC ROBINSON THROUGH A DIVERSE LENS
JC Robinson was The Borough architect for Blackpool in the 1920’s – 1940’s. From schools to swimming baths, markets, memorial halls and more, JC Robinson is responsible for the design of some of the town’s most iconic buildings. Using painting, photography, sculpture, moving image, oral history and archival materials, this exhibition sees contemporary Blackpool based practitioners, returning to the site of these buildings to reveal and reinterpret their stories.
Sharing Space includes work by The New Langdale Photographers and artists from the pARTnership. The New Langdale is a Blackpool Council day-time service for people with a learning-disability. The pARTnership offers bespoke creative and career development opportunities for contemporary visual artists with a learning disability. The project is led by Blackpool based photographer, Claire Walmsley Griffiths supported by photographers Elizabeth Gomm and Donna Hannigan and is funded by Arts Council England via their National Lottery project programme.
About the artists: Photographers Donna Hannigan, Elizabeth Gomm and Claire Griffiths have shared their own social practice to explore what the shared environment means to The New Langdale Photographers and the community who use the spaces. Elizabeth Gomm worked for many years as a press journalist and is now a familiar face in Stanley Park capturing wildlife and events, her work is documentary driven and embedded in community. Donna Hannigan and Claire Griffiths are founding members of Blackpool Community Darkroom and work with community driven projects exploring alternative narratives of working class community. The New Langdale Photographers are Bradley Bulmer, Chloe McFarlane, Dawn Ward, Ila Thornley, Jacqui Cheng, Michael Conway, Robert Serventi. Samantha Bragg, Tony Holmes, Yazmin West.
For further info: cjgriffithsphotography@hotmail.co.uk jcrobinsonphoto@gmail.com
Lead artist: Claire Griffiths for contact, find out more about Claire and her work here.
Link to film: https://vimeo.com/904643156?share=copy
Visit The New Langdale's Photographers' website here for more information and the gallery's website here listing the exhibition.
Photo credit: Jacqui Cheng - Little Bispham Tram Station