Visual Culture
A selection of shop designs, featuring typography, window displays, advertisements etc. Taken in Northern towns, 1972-74, some since demolished.
Visual Culture Slides
In the early days of the Amber Collective, members took on paid work for colleges and broadcasters, and generated businesses, sharing the income amongst the group to allow them take their artistic practice forward. In 1972 Amber launched the Lambton Visual Aids slide library, producing sets of transparencies for Higher Education.
This imagery, created to illustrate potential lectures on a host of subjects, included copies of historical works and original slides alongside new images which included projects on: urban architecture, fairground arts, Blackpool Illuminations, shop fronts and other topics.
In addition to the images from the the Amber Film & Photography Collective, other photographers were commissioned to develop sets of slides in international topics under Lambton Visual Aids.
Visual Culture
A selection of illustrations featuring the best examples of the art of window display from INTERNATIONAL WINDOW DISPLAY, Cassell & Co, 1951. 24 b/w slides.
Visual Culture
A selection of architectural studies of small-town buildings (c late C19th – early C20th) photographed in America in 1972. Locations include Beverley (West Virginia), Cripple Creek (Colorado), Annapolis (Maryland), Valdosta (Georgia) and others.
Visual Culture
A selection of bold and unusual illustrations from GAMMON AND SPINACH, Blackie & Sons, circa 1920.
Visual Culture
A group of Ashington Miners were encouraged to paint about their own lives and experiences by their W.E.A. art class tutor Robert Lyon. The group first met in 1934. This selection of work was developed between then and 1983. The work was seen extensively in Europe and toured China in 1983 as the first ever tour of British artists organsised by the British Council (*with BYKER by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen).
Visual Culture
A group of Ashington Miners were encouraged to paint about their own lives and experiences by their W.E.A. art class tutor Robert Lyon. The group first met in 1934. This selection of work was developed between then and 1983. The work was seen extensively in Europe and toured China in 1983 as the first ever tour of British artists organsised by the British Council (*with BYKER by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen).
Visual Culture
A selection of magnificent chromolithic illustrations from INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851, Day & Son. Featuring ceramics, textiles, furniture etc.
Visual Culture
A selection of magnificent chromolithic illustrations from INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851, Day & Son. Featuring ceramics, textiles, furniture etc.
Visual Culture
A selection of brightly coloured engravings of animals, birds, fishes, vegetation, etc, from THE INSTRUCTIVE PICTURE BOOK, Edmonston & Douglas, 1872.
Visual Culture
A selection of chromolithic plates from MASTERPIECES OF INDUSTRIAL ART & SCULPTURE AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862, Day & Son. A cross-section of furniture, textiles, ceramics, glassware, etc