Event
Saturday Supplement: The Hidden Pin Up
22 Sep 2018
The Whitworth
Manchester, United Kingdom
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Zineb Sedira Une Génération de femmes, 1997 Screen-printed wallpaper the Whitworth, The University of Manchester
Exhibition
Bodies of Colour: Breaking with Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection
3 May 2018 – 28 Apr 2019
Event times
Everyday except Thursdays: 10am-5pm
Thursdays: 10am-9pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- The University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
- Manchester
Greater Manchester - M15 6ER
- United Kingdom
Event map
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper.
About
The wallpapers in this exhibition were designed in Western Europe (and a few in America) but inspiration for the patterns comes from across the globe. The popularity of wallpaper grew through the 18th to 20th centuries, at the same time as the rapid expansion of the British Empire; the collection spans these three centuries. The exhibition contains a mix of commercially available wallpapers as well as wallpapers made by artists.
