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THE CARAVAN GALLERY:
PRIDE OF PLACE

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In October, The Caravan Gallery are launching Barrow Pride of Place: an alternative visitor centre and crowdsourced exhibition in Barrow-in-Furness Market. Here, we present 6 works from a series they produced to initiate the exhibition. The project will be supplemented by a series of participatory workshops designed to chart the beating heart of the region. 

 

The six photographs shown in the teaser were made by The Caravan Gallery during a research trip in early 2020 to the West Coast of Cumbria. These images are starting points for the larger project later in the year, seeking to capture versions of the region through memories, tips and photos from all who live there. Together, this will amount to a crowdsourced documentation and storytelling of the West Coast: from the ordinary to the extraordinary, and everything in between.

 

The visitor centre will be activated by workshops open to all, including a ‘Make Your Own Picture Postcard’ session — giving everyone an opportunity to reformulate how a place is seen by those outside of it. More information on how to get involved will be released in September.

A colour photograph of the interior of a shop. In the foreground are some stands with clothes for sale on hangers. In the background on the far wall there is a handpainted mural of a boxer, a vintage green car and an airship.
A photograph of a child riding a horse with a person walking next to them. They are walking down the road with bungalows on one side. The weather is misty and grey.
A colour landscape photograph of a kids playground in front of the sea. In the distance is an off shore wind farm. The playground is empty of children apart from a black and white dog in the far right of the picture.
A colour photograph of a black and white husky dog with his head resting on the top of a wall in front of a house. The house and wall is pebble dashed. In the top right hand corner of the photograph is a window of the house with a white frame.
A colour photograph of a building with an orange painted facade with a large picture of a sandwich stuck to the facade.
A colour photograph of a caravan in amongst some young trees bare of leaves. The caravan has green mold and dirt on it.

THE CARAVAN GALLERY: POSTCARD WORKSHOPS

Wed 16 & Wed 23 June

About The Caravan Gallery

The Caravan Gallery is a collaboration between artists and photographers Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale, geared towards documenting the reality and surreality of the way we live today. It is based out of a mobile exhibition space that engages with people and places, covering areas that are often outside the fold of conventional art galleries. They use colour photography to create accessible but thought-provoking images which frequently celebrate overlooked and occasionally bizarre aspects of everyday life. They believe in – as curator Sara-Jayne Parsons puts it –  Doing things with people rather than at them.

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