Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
24 October - 2 November 2014
This exhibition, featuring new and archival photography by Victor Sloan alongside selected historical materials documenting the founding of Craigavon, tells the often-strange story of the modernist city that rose out of the Northern Irish countryside.
It is one of the regional events of the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014 (Absorbing Modernity), and is organised by PLACE.
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| Moyraffery Community Centre, Craigavon, giclée print, 182.88cm x 95.67cm, 2014 |
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Burnside, Craigavon, giclée print, 182.88cm x 95.67cm, 2014
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This exhibition, featuring new and archival photography by Victor Sloan alongside selected historical materials documenting the founding of Craigavon, tells the often-strange story of the modernist city that rose out of the Northern Irish countryside.
It is one of the regional events of the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014 (Absorbing Modernity), and is organised by PLACE.
Drawings, plans and strategies for the Brownlow development tie in with the work of Geoffrey Copcutt and modernist housing design such as Cumbernauld in Scotland and Thamesmead in London made infamous in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
The opposition of Sloan’s uneasy imagery of life in a new city with the idealist, utopian visual culture of 1960s town planning, tells the story of a place in which quotidian normality is layered on top of the absurdity of the project’s unrealised ambition.
The Golden Thread Gallery,
84-94 Great Patrick Street,
Belfast BT1 2LU
Tel: 028 90330920
Email: Info@gtgallery.co.uk
Web: www.gtgallery.org.uk
Web: www.gtgallery.org.uk
Exhibition created by
PLACE
PLACE
7 - 9 Lower Garfield Street
Belfast
BT1 1FP
email: info@placeni.org
phone: 028 9023 2524
web: www.placeni.org
BT1 1FP
email: info@placeni.org
phone: 028 9023 2524
web: www.placeni.org
