The Benefits of Brown
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This post serves to archive the recent exhibition in Victoria Building’s PR1 Gallery: The Benefits of Brown. Conceived, curated and created by Graphic Design tutor Andy Bainbridge, the collection of items came together to champion this previously uncelebrated shade. Below is a minutiae of the magnitude of items collected over several years, brought together with charm, storytelling and no little historical context. Thank you, Andy.
Why have an exhibition dedicated solely to brown, you may well ask? Well our answer would be why not? From our digging it would appear no one has ever attempted one before, so if nothing else that is reason enough in our (brown bound) book.
So with that question out of the way, we can get on with the content.
Brown is a colour that pervades all our daily lives, whether we are conscious of it or not and the collection of items presented here were all collected, ostensibly by one person over the past 2 years. In the main most items were collected within their daily sphere but some were sought out and a few were kindly donated.
We have tried to compile, order and curate some of the collection but some items are simply placed and presented at random for your perusal..
We encourage, no insist, upon your physical engagement with the exhibition. So with that in mind please feel free to examine and handle the items, inspect them and feel free to flick through the print.
The one thing we do insist upon is that you place them back how you found them and resist the temptation to purloin them, as that would really leave us browned off!
Thank you and enjoy!
– Andy Bainbridge
With thanks to the exhibition sponsor Preston Board & Packaging.
