After an incredible summer the Fab Collective’s first exhibition ‘Up to something‘ has now closed. The Fab Collective would like to thank all of our hundreds of visitors for helping to make the exhibition such a huge success.
Don’t forget that ‘Up to something’ – the book of the exhibition is now available.
If you had your photo taken in the exhibition then see if you can spot yourself in the ‘Up to something’ portrait gallery (we are adding your photos as quickly as we can but it may take a few days for yours to appear). We’d also love to see your photos if you took any in the exhibition. Please add them to the Flickr ‘Up to something’ group.
The photographs in the exhibition were all either inspired by or chosen in response to quotes about Liverpool. The title ‘Up to something’ is taken from this quote:
“You know what scousers are like, they’re always up to something. Please do not repeat that to anyone from Liverpool.” Jack Straw 1999
In response to this we would like to say that yes, we are scousers and we are up to something – something fab!
Read reviews of the exhibition by the Daily Post and Art in Liverpool or watch a video about the exhibition on YouTube.
The Fab Collective will be back with more projects and hopefully another exhibition. To find out what we are up to you can follow us on facebook or twitter.
Fab people do fab things. It’s not just Magnum that have all the fun.
The Fab Collective are currently entirely self funded. However if you would like to sponsor any of our activities or future exhibitions then we would love to hear from you. Please contact info@fabcollective.com
We would like to thank Urban Strawberry Lunch, c3imaging and the Ship & Mitre pub for their support for the ‘Up to something’ exhibition. Thanks also to the many people of Liverpool who we have photographed.
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I was impressed with the pictures and quotes, and what an amazing venue. I’m visiting from Australia and had hoped to see the bombed out church, having the exhibition there was a huge bonus.
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Hey Fab Collective,
As I said to Dave on Bank Holiday Monday I really like the fact you’ve taken the Jack Straw quote and turned it into something positive, which it always was. As a Liberal I’ve always been an opponent of Jack Straw’s but I took the quote as tongue in cheek and cheeky, a tribute to Scousers really, so at the time I thought the deluge of ‘he’s attacking Liverpool’ stuff was silly. Great that you’ve seen it as fun, and turned the quote into the impetus for a really interesting mix of photos and quotes in an inspired space, the Bombed Out Church.
Kiron.
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