TPS X NW research

After being contacted by the events organiser from The Old Red Bus Station, Tom Clague was contacted for a collaboration, as it seemed like the perfect time to both collaborate for the first time on clothing, and also curate and host an event. Figure 1 shows Tom’s illustration style, with figure 2 showing The Prawn Shop’s, Tom’s  line quality is very similar to the brands and so the collaboration had the potential to work very cohesively, ensuring the designs would still attract the attention of the prawn shop’s 18-24 predominantly female audience.

After agreeing it collaborate, the event space was looked at in order to see what was possible. The exhibition space was on the top  floor of the building, with two sets of stairs leading up to a short hallway with a door at each side-leading to two rooms which were both available for use.
The first room (on the left) was very open, with exposed brick walls and windows. Gabby informed us that we could hang anything on all but one wall, with the freedom to rearrange the rooms however we like.
The second room was much darker than the first, with it normally being used for club nights with coloured lights throughout this room.

After visiting the space a  floor plan was drawn up as can be seen in figure 3, this was used to plan out what would be in each room and also to understand what was needed to be produced.
The concept was decided on creating two separate environments in the two rooms, with the lighter room on the left being used as an exhibition space, a place for photo opportunities and a stall selling prints.
The other, much darker room, was to be used as more of an interactive space, with art work on the walls, places for people to mingle and relax and much louder music than in the other room.

The venue, which is usually used as a club space was quite dirty, as can be seen in figure 4 there were marks on the ceiling and so the decision was made to attempt to cover these during the exhibition.