No
Longer Used: The Decay of Crossley Hospital East
23rd October - 16th December in Gallery 2, Castle Park Arts Centre,
Frodsham, Nr. Chester Cheshire
(need directions?)
Monday
Closed
Tuesday to Saturday
10.00am - 12.30pm & 2.00pm - 4.30pm
Sunday
2.00pm - 4.30pm
< Now on >
The Media Interest
Featured in the Guardian Guide
and Frodsham Life Magazine
Hello and welcome to the online Crossley Hospital East
Exhibition. This web site is about my photography and artwork inspired
by Crossley Hospital, and my up and coming exhibition
which now has been photographed for
those of you who wont be able to view my work.
The site also contains some other derelict sites which i have visited,
they can be found in the no longer used
section.
Please feel free to explore the site, let me know what you think and if
you find any problems etc, let me know.
Ian
Latest news:
Asylum news:
It appears on a recent trip to High
Royds that the site has now been closed to the public and the older
parts of the site have been bulldozed.
The site was recently granted permission to be developed into its own
village.
6th November 05;
The final push for promoting my exhibition reached
new heights in yesterdays national broadsheet the Guardian "Guide".
The listings magazine will promote my exhibition until its finished. See
under exhibitions page 35 for the listing. I'll place a few scans up here
of all my media/promotion that my exhibition has been covered by shortly.
It has also been confirmed that the December issue of Frodsham
Life magazine (out at the end of November) will also publish a interview
and selected photographs from my exhibition.
Due to the media interest in my work. A page has
been produced to document articles about my work etc.
24th October 05;
At last, No Longer Used; The decay of Crossley Hospital East
is now on at Castle Park Arts centre in Frodsham.
Please go and check it out if you can. Entry is free.
Also i've photographed my exhibition, and an online version can be seen
here.
Anyway, it appears that the Chester Chronicle havn't yet confirmed when
exactly the article on my exhibition will be published. Either this weeks
edition or the following weeks. Keep your eyes peeled if your in the Chester
area.
The Frodsham
Life Magazine, also interviewed me on Sunday at the opening of my
exhibition. This was consequently filmed and will be posted on this web
site shortly.
19th October 05;
As my exhibition looms closer, i've been busy mounting work and gathering
all information together. I'm due to be interviewed by Frodsham
Life magazine on sunday at my exhibition opening for their feature
in the November Issue. A full transcript of my interview will appear here
shortly. This friday (21st) the Chester
Chronicle will also also be running a small feature on my exhibition.
Be sure to purchase a copy if you can.
If you can't make my exhibition but would be interested in my work, give
me an email and i'll send over information and
pictures. All my work will be for sale from Sunday the 23rd October at
Castle Park Arts Centre.
4th October 05;
The Frodsham
Life magazine has run an article on my exhibition as a way of locally
promoting my No Longer Used - The Decay Of Crossley Hospital East exhibition.
I will place scans of this article and others here shortly. As yet the
Chester Chronicle is waiting to get back to me before an article is published.
Also i have kindly been sent photocopies of documents dating back to 1908
about Crossley, along with several personal accounts of life at the hospital.
These also will be up on the site shortly.
14th
Septmeber 05;
The no longer used section, documenting
all explorations relating to derelict buildings has now been updated with
3 explorations.
9th September 05;
The Chester Chronicle (Frodsham and Helsby edition) and the Frodsham Life
Magazine, will be running an article on my exhibition. It will most likely
appear in early October.
5th September 05;
Its finally been confirmed that the exhibition will run from 23rd October
- 16th December at Castle Park Art Centre, Frodsham, Cheshire. Contact
me for more details etc.
Spent the
past few days on the phone to people who know Crossley better than anyone
else - the people who worked there and lived near the hospital. God bless
them for their stories, some very moving. I hope my work will do them
justice.
If you wish to contribute to the site you may do, again by contacting
me.
