The Travelling Gallery
Between Women: Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu
The exhibition will be displayed for one week only, Monday 17 February - Friday 21 February 2025 and tour to the following locations:
Community Wellbeing Centre, Wester Hailes, Edinburgh - Monday 17 February
Glasgow Women’s Library, Landressy Street, Glasgow - Tuesday 18 February
Dundee International Women’s Centre, Dundonald Street, Dundee - Wednesday 19 February
Fluthars Car Park, East Burnside, Cupar - Thursday 20 February
East Sands Car Park, St Marys Street, St Andrews - Friday 21 February
Exhibition Graphic by Maeve Redmond
Lives Less Ordinary: Working Class Britain Re-Seen
Two Temple Place, London
25 Jan - 20 April
Pearl Alcock / Vanley Burke / Chila Kumari Singh Burman / Joanne Coates / Beryl Cook / Julie Cook / Connor Coulston / Creative Black Country / Leslie Duxbury / Joan Eardley / Feministo! / Martin Figura / Jimmy Floyd / Denzil Forrester / Sandra George / Julian Germain / Ken Grant / Derrick Greaves / Margaret Green / Bert Hardy / Chris Harrison / Mahtab Hussain / Izabela Jedrzejczyk / Jasleen Kaur / Neil Kenlock / Chris Killip / Sirkka Liisa Konttinen / Mark Leckey / Roman Manfredi / Masterji / Rene Matić / Tish Murtha / Kelly O’Brien / Hardeep Pandhal / Robert Parkinson / Hetain Patel / Charlie Phillips / Ceri Richards / Bob Robinson / Anne Ryan / Corbin Shaw / George Shaw / Jack Smith / Jo Spence / Hannah Starkey / Emilie Taylor / Ten 8 Ltd / Triple Transformations / Eric Tucker / Gavin Watson / Matthew Arthur Williams / Richard Young
Our 2025 exhibition explores the overlooked richness and diversity of working-class life and creative expression from the 1950s to now.
Challenging long-standing inequities and misrepresentation, this exhibition will present compelling assertions of pride, tenderness, resilience, humour and hopefulness, and moments of play, joy and rest. Looking beyond the often reductive narratives of crisis and struggle that traditionally characterise representation of working-class people and communities in British arts institutions, Lives Less Ordinary champions a gaze from within, from artists from working-class backgrounds who have used their creativity to reflect wide-ranging experiences and identities, depicting and defining their culture and communities on their own terms.
Lives Less Ordinary will bring together ceramics, film, painting, photography and sculpture from wide-ranging public collections, archives, and contemporary artists across the UK, to explore a nuanced and authentic reflection of working-class experience, within an architectural setting that both manifests and interrogates wealth and privilege.
Lives Less Ordinary is a Two Temple Place exhibition, conceived and curated by Samantha Manton.
The exhibition is supported by Museum as Muck, the Working Class British Art Network, Working Class Creatives Database and Working Arts Club, as well as an advisory group of noted advocates for those underrepresented in the arts sector – Beth Hughes, Michelle McGrath, Jon Sleigh & Afia Yeboah.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a wide-ranging programme of cultural events for adults and children including talks, lectures, demonstrations, workshops and Wednesday Late openings until 9pm, as well as the acclaimed Two Temple Place programme for state sector primary schools.
Lives Less Ordinary will be open from 25 January until 20 April 2025.
Entry is FREE and no booking is required.
Opening hours:
Monday: CLOSED
Tuesday: 11am – 6pm
Wednesday: 11am – 9pm
Thursday: 11am – 6pm
Friday: 11am – 6pm
Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Sunday: 11am – 4.30pm