Surbiton Lagoon – A Splash in Time (2017)

 The Cornerhouse Community Arts Centre

116 Douglas Road, Tolworth, Surbiton, KT6 7SB

April 9 – May 7 2017

‘It was like a mini Brighton in the Suburbs’

Reinventing a lost and not so forgotten space in leafy suburbia. A curated archive of printmaking, vintage swimwear, and video and oral histories.

The aim of this body of work is to convey a sense of community Surbiton Lagoon encompassed. Referencing the role that The CORNERHouse Arts Centre provides to the surrounding areas.

Photographs and texts are the foundation of the work. Images act as a metaphor to forgotten memories; fragments of time captured in a moment, holding lost tales of an urban outdoor space. Re-fashioning and re-framing those bygone days, developing a sense of playfulness, loss and bringing new life to an overlooked local history.

Divers Cropped – Silk Screenprint

Silk Screenprint

Divers – Silk Screenprint

Silk Screenprint

Silk Screenprints in the studio

Silk Screenprint

Kingston History Centre

Surbiton Lagoon First Bather

Ladybird Book – How to Swim & Dive – Series 633

Hot of the press – Cigarette Girl – EV

The reveal

Cigarette Girl – EV Display

Cigarette Girl – EV

Cigarette Girl – EV

Cigarette Girl – EV

Cigarette Girl – EV

Vintage Swimwear

Swimwear 1960’s: Tangerine

Vintage Swimwear -Display

Swimwear 1970’s: Purple Psychedelic

Bikini Buttoned Swimsuit 1940’s: Purple and Baby Yellow

Halter Neck Swimsuit 1980’s: Navy Blue

Vintage Swimwear -Display

David Napier Swimwear 1980’s: Peacock Blue

IH: 1928

Lost: 1947

Gone: 1947

CORNERhOUSE – Main room

Lost: 1947

Surbiton Lagoon (SL) – Photocopy Transfer on Canvas with Indian Ink Wash

Archives

Southern Railway, Ticket (WATERLOO TO SURBITON, 1935)

Divers

Divers – Silk screen-prints – EV

Divers – Silk screen-prints – EV

Divers – Silk screen-prints – EV

Video Installation including oral histories

Video viewing

The Good life May 2017

The cornerHOUSE

The cornerHOUSE