Saturday Town: Launch Event
Open Eye Gallery is delighted to invite you to the private view and celebration of the new show, Saturday Town, on 10 April, 6–8 pm, with music from Maddie Morris (BBC Radio 2 young folk award winner, queer activist and musician from Leeds) and Emzie Love and Blvk.Velvet of Queensway (collective platforming underrepresented groups within the electronic music scene).
Saturday Town is a photography series by the award winning photographer Casey Orr. Since 2013 Casey has travelled throughout the UK with her pop-up portrait studio photographing young people on Saturday afternoons. 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 and the whole country. It is also about the streets themselves, the changes happening through the ways we use town centres and how public spaces can serve the changing needs of local communities.
Bronwyn Andrews, creative producer and assistant curator, said: “Are we different now? Can you see yourself? How does it feel to belong, or rebel? What makes you feel like you? Saturday Town acts as a mosaic of youth subculture, fashion and self expression in the north of England over the last 10 years. Through a period which has seen a global pandemic and the dissolution of the gender binary, Casey Orr holds up a sign which reads ‘These young people are important!’
Casey Orr is an American photographer and artist. She has lived in the UK for over 25 years working on a variety of commissions and personal projects. She works between the UK and USA, photographing the people and communities of Britain and of her homeland, using her camera to answer questions she has about, among other things, the lives of women, the interconnectedness of all living things, our relationship to nature and notions of home and belonging. Her work Saturday Girl won the Format Photography Festival Award in 2019.
The exhibition will continue 11 April – 18 May, Tuesday – Sunday, 10 – 17. Free, all welcome.
Open Eye Gallery is delighted to invite you to the private view and celebration of the new show, Saturday Town, on 10 April, 6–8 pm, with music from Maddie Morris (BBC Radio 2 young folk award winner, queer activist and musician from Leeds) and Emzie Love and Blvk.Velvet of Queensway (collective platforming underrepresented groups within the electronic music scene).
Saturday Town is a photography series by the award winning photographer Casey Orr. Since 2013 Casey has travelled throughout the UK with her pop-up portrait studio photographing young people on Saturday afternoons. 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 and the whole country. It is also about the streets themselves, the changes happening through the ways we use town centres and how public spaces can serve the changing needs of local communities.
Bronwyn Andrews, creative producer and assistant curator, said: “Are we different now? Can you see yourself? How does it feel to belong, or rebel? What makes you feel like you? Saturday Town acts as a mosaic of youth subculture, fashion and self expression in the north of England over the last 10 years. Through a period which has seen a global pandemic and the dissolution of the gender binary, Casey Orr holds up a sign which reads ‘These young people are important!’
Casey Orr is an American photographer and artist. She has lived in the UK for over 25 years working on a variety of commissions and personal projects. She works between the UK and USA, photographing the people and communities of Britain and of her homeland, using her camera to answer questions she has about, among other things, the lives of women, the interconnectedness of all living things, our relationship to nature and notions of home and belonging. Her work Saturday Girl won the Format Photography Festival Award in 2019.
The exhibition will continue 11 April – 18 May, Tuesday – Sunday, 10 – 17. Free, all welcome.
