Remembering Paddy’s Market One Year On
To mark the one year anniversary I designed and installed a self funded special photography and multimedia exhibition space within the Barra’s Market in Glasgow. One of the indoor market stalls was transformed – plastered, painted and lit to make it a unique, if not one of the smallest gallery’s you may have seen and came complete with Paddy’s coffin. The reason the venue was in the Barra’s Market itself is that many of the original traders of Paddy’s Market set up within the market after the closure of Paddy’s (many of them struggling, as their days of trading have been cut from 6 days to 2 days per week).
It was equally important to me that this show was exhibited and seen in a space out with a regular gallery, and also to highlight the issue that the Barra’s Market will no doubt be the next Glasgow institution to be closed. The opening night of the exhibition was held on the 15th May 2010, one year on to the day that Paddy’s was closed. Traders and friends joined for a screening and piss up to celebrate Paddy’s one year on – gone but not forgotten!
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