LIGHTSWORKS RETURN TO DUNDEE REP THEATRE
THERE'S a second chance to view the photographic exhibition 'Lightworks on Dundee', a snap-shot of Dundee in the 1990s which was last seen in the city almost twenty years ago.
A fascinating exhibition consisting of over 40 vintage prints by the much admired Dundee based photographic group, 'Lightworks', which flourished from around 1985 until 1992, runs at Dundee Rep Theatre until July 31.
The images, a snapshot of Dundee life around 1990, were selected from the highly acclaimed show, 'Lightworks on Dundee', held in the McManus Galleries in 1991 as part of the celebrations of 'Dundee 800', the City's Octocentenary.
With the passage of nearly 20 years, they are now nostalgic.
Lightworks consisted of ten photographers united by their enthusiasm for the craft of fine printing and the art of picture making.
Roben Antoniewicz is known for his ingenious still-lifes. Jim Mailer made stylish photographs of street furniture, while Malcolm J Thomson concentrated on Dundee's old factory lums, now mostly demolished. Colin Ruscoe captured the drama of industrial sites at night, including a towering oil rig decorated as a Christmas tree, while Colin Wishart selected a variety of subjects infused with a sense of poetry.
Others in the group concentrated on photographing Dundee's people.
Martin Reekie did an excellent series of traditional shop interiors; Jackie Malcolm photographed the eccentric and colourful news vendors; and Rikki O'Neill had a lively time with the local punks.
Finally Manus McGinty and Steve Brand teamed up to photograph families, OAPs, tramps, old soldiers and young children in the City Square in a delightful series known as Sunday People.
There are no plans to re-establish Lightworks as a working group so this exhibition is more of an afterglow than a relight.
The exhibition is shown throughout all the Dundee Rep's public spaces, open from 9.30 until late on performance days.
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