Simon Phipps - Fairwater Shopping Precinct

Fairwater Shopping Precinct, Cwmbran; designed by Gordon Redfern of Cwmbran Development Corporation, built 1967.

Atmosphere and material. Time visible in the surface of things. A structure that still goes up, whatever has happened to it since.

From Simon Phipps' new series of five works centred on the staircase as sculptural object. Phipps has spent over 25 years photographing Britain's postwar modernist architecture, finding form, atmosphere and quiet drama in buildings most people pass without seeing.

Trained as a sculptor, with a background in film, he brings a particular understanding of light, sequence and material to every image he makes.

Perspective changes everything.

Poster size: 490 x 678mm
Printing: EMA, Enhanced Matte Art Paper, 200gsm.
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