- Venue
- Poole Museum
- Starts
- Tuesday, July 5, 2011
- Ends
- Monday, September 19, 2011
- Address
- 4 High Street, Poole BH15 1BW. Tel: 01202 262 600
- Location
- South West England
A fascinating two-year community project developed by Joe Stevens draws to a close with the opening of this exhibition, which tells the story of people’s working lives and the affordability of goods in the shops, making comparisons between the 50s and today, and features many recordings and quotations from local people, as well as archive film. Joe has been recording people describe the spaces in which they worked, the jobs they used to do, how they got these jobs and how they travelled to work. There is something to this concentration on detail and the relationship between the individual and the collective that seems timely to explore when we feel as never before, especially with the current crisis, the effects of economic and social pressures on our everyday actions. Attempting to grapple with such global changes and not be overwhelmed by them, venturing to ask ‘where am I in this?’ is where art and the encounters it creates can be most powerful. The fifties is a fascinating period of our countries history. Britain was about to set out on a remarkable journey. The nation we live in today was starting to take shape; with many thinks we nowadays take for granted just taking shape.
