Saturday Girl About Town at Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces: Wigan
Presented at Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces: Wigan, Open Eye Gallery in partnership with Wigan Borough Council are excited to present the first exhibition in a new series of Saturday Girl About Town by photographer Casey Orr.
Saturday Girl About Town is the award winning pop up portrait studio of photographer Casey Orr. In 2021/22 all fashionable folks in Northern towns are invited to show off their style and be photographed. This is the first exhibition. There will be more to come with opportunities to take part and a publication about the high street, fashion and the history of promenading here as well as projects in Burnley, Redcar, Blackpool and Chester. The project explores fashion, identity and the self expression of young people on Saturday afternoons on the high streets and public spaces of towns across Northern England. It is also about the streets themselves, the changes happening through the ways we shop and use town centres and how public spaces can serve the changing needs of local communities.
Saturday Girl won the Format Festival Award in 2019. Since 2014 Casey has travelled throughout the UK with her pop up portrait studio photographing young people since 2014 on Saturday afternoons.
Supported by Open Eye Gallery, Wigan Borough Council, Castlefield Gallery and Historic England/Heritage Action Zones.
You can find out more about Saturday Girl About Town at caseyorr.com/blog
Image: Casey Orr, Saturday Girl About Town. Photography by Casey Orr
Presented at Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces: Wigan, Open Eye Gallery in partnership with Wigan Borough Council are excited to present the first exhibition in a new series of Saturday Girl About Town by photographer Casey Orr.
Saturday Girl About Town is the award winning pop up portrait studio of photographer Casey Orr. In 2021/22 all fashionable folks in Northern towns are invited to show off their style and be photographed. This is the first exhibition. There will be more to come with opportunities to take part and a publication about the high street, fashion and the history of promenading here as well as projects in Burnley, Redcar, Blackpool and Chester. The project explores fashion, identity and the self expression of young people on Saturday afternoons on the high streets and public spaces of towns across Northern England. It is also about the streets themselves, the changes happening through the ways we shop and use town centres and how public spaces can serve the changing needs of local communities.
Saturday Girl won the Format Festival Award in 2019. Since 2014 Casey has travelled throughout the UK with her pop up portrait studio photographing young people since 2014 on Saturday afternoons.
Supported by Open Eye Gallery, Wigan Borough Council, Castlefield Gallery and Historic England/Heritage Action Zones.
You can find out more about Saturday Girl About Town at caseyorr.com/blog
Image: Casey Orr, Saturday Girl About Town. Photography by Casey Orr
