Exhibition materials and collaborative projects

Photo: Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie poster.
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie poster.

The National Fairground Archive has collaborated on various exhibitions through the last five years and is keen to develop on this area of work.

Recent collaborations include the touring exhibition 'Pleasurelands' from 2004, a history of Circus performance for Harrogate Mercer Art Gallery, material for Hull's Ferens Gallery, the NFA in-house 'Top of the Bill' exhibition, and the recent 'Circus of Wonders' for Blackpool's Showzam Festival. For these projects we have produced site-specific material such as visual and information boards and large vinyl banner displays. In addition we have selected posters and handbills from our collection and turned these into framed artefacts. Further images have been brought up to exhibition standards through the creation of high resolution digital prints.

We are keen to work on further exhibitions in either a collaborative sense or by loaning out pre-existing exhibition material for re-use. A combination of this is also possible whereby we re-use a selection of material and add to this with newly prepared work or newly framed material from the collections.