Cointreau
3/11/05 - 26/11/05
In conjunction with Cointreau, this exhibition celebrates the spirit and individuality of women around the world. From the suffragettes’ fight for rights to Madonna’s media presence, Marilyn Monroe’s glamour to Ava Gardner’s humour, we see both famous and less well-known women who have their own, very individual styles in a show infused with humour, strength of spirit and joie de vivre.
Brunel's Legacy
4/4/06 - 22/4/06
April, 2006 saw the bicentenary of Britain’s greatest engineer and, according to a BBC poll in 2002, the “Second Greatest Briton of All Time”, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Responsible for the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway which linked London with Bristol, Brunel’s legacy is still in evidence today. This exhibition celebrated some of Brunel’s best known work as well as other major engineering...
Live Aid - Then and Now
29/6/05 - 16/7/05
Curated by photographer Dave Hogan in conjunction with the ‘Live Aid 8’ concert held on 2nd June 2005 and the ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign, this show brought together iconic images from the historic 1985 Live Aid Concert and 2004’s re-recording of the “Do They Know It’s Christmas” single in a unique exhibition.
Spirit of Cricket
25/5/05 - 25/6/05
To celebrate the opening of the 2005 Ashes series, this show acknowledged the universal appeal of cricket around the world whether amateur or professional. Drawing on archival black and white imagery and contemporary action photography, we learn how cricket bats are made, witness famous Test moments and marvel at improvised pitches on bomb sites, industrial wasteland and the South African veldt. From W. G...
Charles Edridge
20/4/05 - 3/5/05
The exhibition, entitled “Assignments”, was curated by Graham Wood, Director of Photography at The Times newspaper and includes around 30 black and white images which span Edridge’s remarkable sixty-year career as a photojournalist. Beginning as a soldier in the Second World War, when he was assigned to take intelligence pictures, Edridge was greatly influenced by Cartier Bresson...