22.01.10

Martin Parr artworks

A new exhibition on ‘Working Men’s Clubs’ by
eminent UK photographer

Announcing the opening of the exhibition at Earlswood Working Men’s Club 11 Feb – 14 March 2010.

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Martin Parr’s ‘Working Men’s Clubs‘ is one of four photography commissions from ‘Imaging the City’, a collaborative project between Safle and the University of Wales, Newport (UWN), conceived by Russell Roberts and Emma Price and funded by St David’s Partnership.

Parr is an eminent UK photographer who has been working with Safle in Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys to produce this new body of work. Earlswood Working Men’s Club was chosen by the artist as the first exhibition venue, his idea was to use unconventional gallery space so that viewers can experience club life first-hand.

The tradition of Working Men’s Clubs has long held a fascination for Parr. Over the past six months, he has visited many of the Welsh clubs in pursuit of photographing the ‘Saturday night out’. Parr’s anthology of collective identity, social gatherings and civic behaviour is inseparable from his representations, for it is both the subject and the product of the signifying practices, discourses and images in which Parr’s photographs deliver on cue the culture of place.

A Private View will be held at the Earlswood Working Men’s Club on Thursday, 11 February 2010 from 7-9pm.

Earlswood Working Men’s Club, 160 Greenway Rd, Rumney, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales CF3 3PN.

GETTING THERE: Public Transport - The nearest train station is Cardiff Central. A frequent bus service runs from Cardiff Central Library to Rumney (Number: 44, 44B, 45, 45B).

Visitors parking spaces are limited.

For further information and press images please contact:
Emma Price, Safle Senior Project Manager
T: 029 2044 8071
E: emma.price@safle.com

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