Julian Trevelyan's Worktown exhibition at Bolton Museum December 1, 2008

This exhibition explores the work of Julian Trevelyan and his studies on the Mass Observation project. In 1937, artist Humphrey Jennings, newspaper reporter and poet Charles Madge and anthropologist Tom Harrisson formed the Mass Observation team. Bolton was chosen as the base for northern research because it seemed like a typical northern town. Julian Trevelyan joined the team in 1937. He was one of a number of artists invited by Tom Harrisson to record what it felt like to be in Bolton. The exhibition documents a whole range of Trevelyan’s work; including collage and watercolour landscapes of Bolton’s mills and streets, and interesting photographs of local street life.

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