Brass band to open exhibition at Station Gallery on the 1st of May
23 April
Nancy Cameron says:
Come listen to the band - on Saturday, 1st May. Brass Sounds Inverclyde are playing between 12 and 2.00p.m. at the station as part of the opening of a special exhibition at the Station Gallery. Called 'Wemyss Bay - Beyond the end of the Line' it will run until Saturday 12 June. The gallery is open Mondays to Saturdays, 9.30 - 4.30.
The exhibition is a personal exploration of the village by Chris Hogg and Lynn Patrick, who for their day jobs, work as the photographers at the National Railway Museum, York. Wemyss Bay was put on the map with the arrival of the railway in 1865. The exhibition once again places it firmly on the map, and shows Wemyss Bay with its station and pier at the close of the 20th century. It may be a decade since the photographs were taken but their impact is just as strong. They show how soon the recent past becomes history - things that once were so familiar are now gone and lost forever, houses have been demolished and new ones built, and the freedom to wander on the pier and watch the arrival and departure of the ferries now a thing of the past. This exhibition not only provokes the memory, it excites the eye by turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.
The official opening of the exhibition will be at 1.00 p.m, by local councillor Innes Nelson. Come and join us.
Come listen to the band - on Saturday, 1st May. Brass Sounds Inverclyde are playing between 12 and 2.00p.m. at the station as part of the opening of a special exhibition at the Station Gallery. Called 'Wemyss Bay - Beyond the end of the Line' it will run until Saturday 12 June. The gallery is open Mondays to Saturdays, 9.30 - 4.30.
The exhibition is a personal exploration of the village by Chris Hogg and Lynn Patrick, who for their day jobs, work as the photographers at the National Railway Museum, York. Wemyss Bay was put on the map with the arrival of the railway in 1865. The exhibition once again places it firmly on the map, and shows Wemyss Bay with its station and pier at the close of the 20th century. It may be a decade since the photographs were taken but their impact is just as strong. They show how soon the recent past becomes history - things that once were so familiar are now gone and lost forever, houses have been demolished and new ones built, and the freedom to wander on the pier and watch the arrival and departure of the ferries now a thing of the past. This exhibition not only provokes the memory, it excites the eye by turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.
The official opening of the exhibition will be at 1.00 p.m, by local councillor Innes Nelson. Come and join us.
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