This project consisted of photographs, text and a time lapse film exhibited at the group show Pick’n’Mix, Woolworths, 817 High Road, Leytonstone, London E11 1HQ, 26th June - 19th July 2009. Over 2,000 people visited the exhibition. Mark Hampson, one of the organisers, described the show as follows: “the works selected deliberately and defiantly echo the unique and eclectic nature of Woolworths’ retailing style. The collision of hardware and homeware. CDs and kiddies clothes, toilet seats, toys, trinkets and trash have been replaced by a similarly unlikely and brash combination of painting, video, drawing, installation, sculpture, ceramics and prints. The resulting experience, part exhibition and part event, is appropriately a visual Pick’n’mix of styles, languages, approaches and attitudes.”
The images in my installation referred to trust, surveillance, the financial crisis of 2008, consumerism and popular culture. The exhibition was featured on the TV programme Art in Troubled Times, screened on BBC One, 21st July 2009.
Five of my images from the show were selected for exhibition at the London Independent Photographer’s annual exhibition, 2009. One image was featured in The Independent’s online edition:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/london-independent-photography-celebrates-the-capitals-finest-snappers-1807957.html?action=Gallery&ino=6
The images were also published in the exhibition catalogue.