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24 striking images on display at Westminster station + Video
It’s six months to go until the fabled ‘Night Tube’ launches, and what better way to celebrate than with an epic Underground art exhibition.
Come September 12, the tube will be opening its carriage doors to late-night workers and early morning ravers alike with its extended all-night weekend services. It’s a pretty big deal (say farewell to extortionate taxi fares and hello to a rejuvenated social life!) so in order to start the countdown and build the hype TfL has organised a series of events entitled ‘Firsts for the Tube’.
First up is the ‘Free the Night’ exhibition, a collection of 24 striking images from some of the world’s best photographers. Work from the likes of Sam Taylor Johnson OBE, Nick Knight OBE, Corinne Day, Sir Cecil Beaton, Juergen Teller, and Rankin is now on display at London’s favourite Underground station – Westminster.
Some of the photographs are a whopping 9 x 6 foot in size and are on display in the station’s alcoves. Keep an eye out for a 1920s ballroom dance by Sir Cecil Beaton, a snap of a tube worker on his way home taken by the fabulous British fashion and portrait photographer Rankin, and Bruce Springsteen papped outside Hammersmith Odeon by Chalkie Davies in 1979.
George Annin of the Annin Arts Gallery, which partnered with TfL to produce the gallery, said: ‘Each photograph captures a different idea of the concept of “Free the Night”‘.
So go take a look, get inspired by the night-time city scenes and get giddy that there’s only six months left until we get to party hard and snuggle up on a nice warm tube train on our way home.
Group101 were asked to produce a series of large 3m x 2m printed panel and look into post fitting and rail fitting to housing the print in the Westminster tube station alcoves. Working with a London based art gallery responsible for this project Group101 designed their own post and bespoke flat feet which were all aluminum welded and the use of Resin bolts to fix these directly in the ground. The rails were stuck to the back of the boards and the panels fitted to the posts. The whole project was done and dusted within 72 hours of the gallery contacting Group101. They were able to take the vision of the gallery and create a physical product that not only worked but also passed the rigorous health and safety policies in place at TFL.
James from Group101 states " We would normally spend around 2 weeks on a projects of this size but manage to run this over a couple of night shifts and get this done, I’m proud of the whole team who worked on this exhibition, it really has transformed the dull alcoves of the tube station, a pleasant surprise for all commuters"
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