Stuart Whipps: Why Contribute to the Spread of Ugliness?

An exhibition of work by photographer Stuart Whipps, who is interested in the nature of archives. 480 boxes of paperwork at the former offices of the John Madin design group provide the basis for a new body of work shown in this exhibition. In particular Whipp focuses on Box 867 ‘Paradise Circus’ containing Madin’s research notes from his 1964 tour of American libraries which were to influence his later design for the new central library in Birmingham. Whipps retraces Madin’s trip and produces new photographs of the buildings and interiors documented. Presented alongside other images and altered archive material, Whipps investigates assumptions of value and notions of collecting: what is kept, what is discarded, and how this shapes our understanding of what has gone before.

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