Gallery Only Archive

List of exhibitions only shown in the Gallery

The touring exhibitions were launched in the gallery first before they were hired out. It also showed the Cockpit’s work in progress, exhibitions made by other community groups and youth clubs, school’s projects including course work for GCSE, shows by BA photography students, and the work of individual artists, photographers and cartoonists. The Cockpit did not keep a systematic photographic record of these. The documentation is sparse and this is a partial list.

Art and the Built Environment – (4-27 March 1980)

Art In Action – a community photographic project on Merseyside (29 April – 21 May)

A Tale of Two New Towns – Photographic exhibition looking at Washington, Tyne and Wear by Janina Struk and Harlow, Essex by Andrew Golding (14 Jan – 1 Feb 1985)

Apart From The School (1979) – No images available

Autobiographies – Sarah McCarthy (June 3 – July 15 1979)

Berger/Jean Mohr July (1979) – No images available

Boys and Masculinity (nd)

Bringing It All Back Home – An exhibition about Northern Ireland (15 Jan – 7 Feb 1980)

Cat on the Bru! Tape Slide show and exhibition – a look at the lives of a group of unemployed people in Derry. Produced by Camerawork, Derry.

Central Line – A selection of Degree Work by Photographic Students from Polytechnic of Central London (4 – 28 Oct 1983)

Challenging Sexism in Education – an exhibition of anti-sexist work from schools and youth clubs. Coordinated by the Women’s Education group (6 – 22 Mar 1984)

Class Roles – Teachers and Photographers take a look at Education Today (6 – 30 Nov 1984)

Come Glancing – Degree Work from Students of Polytechnic of Central London (Oct 1 – 29)

Economics and Ideology – a celebration of Robert Tressell’s Ragged Trousered Philanthropist – Conrad Atkinson (12 Nov – 9 Dec)

From Me To Us – Explorations in self-portraiture and community work by first-year students on the BA Hons on the Applied Photography, Film and TV at Harrow College of Higher Education (14 Oct – 13 Nov 1986)

From Resistance to Rebellion – an exhibition on Asia and Afro-Carribean Struggles in Britain. Produced by The Institute of Race Relations (17April – 16 May)

Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp (12 Oct – 11 Nov 1982)

Growing Up – ‘An Artist in Schools’ Project by Helen Chadwick Organised by Spectro Newcastle and supported by Northern Arts (23 Nov – 14 Dec 1983)

Home/ School /Work – Cockpit Schools Photography Project 1982-3 (1983)

In the Company of Women – A Journey through Central America – Jenny Matthews. A touring exhibition from the El Salvador and Guatemala Committees for Human Rights (2 – 20 June 1986)

Keeping in View – On Women & History: from schools and local history projects (4 – 27 March 1985)

Looking Out (2-20 July 1984) – Work from Four Corners, Sacred Heart School, Geoffrey Chaucer School, Camerawork Darkrooms, Centreprise Young Photographers, Blackfriars Photography Project, Cockpit Cultural Studies Dept., Northchurch Daycare Centre, Hackney Downs Unemployed School Leavers project, Walworth and Aylesbury Community Arts Trust & Home tuition centre.

Model Institution – Helen Chadwick. An exhibition about the jobless. 5 claimants speak out against unemployment (21 Jan – 18 Feb 1982)

New Conceptions – A selection of Degree work from the Polytechnic of Central London (16 Nov – 15 Dec 1982)

Nicaragua – (2 June 1986)

No Nuclear Weapons – Peter Kennard, Mike Abrahams & Ric Sissons (3 – 25 Sept)

Open Week – Cockpit Cultural Studies Schools Photography project Work in Progress.

Our Bodies Our Lives -Staff and Students of Polytechnic of Central London with the National Abortion Campaign. ( 16 Nov -15 Dec 1982)

People’s March for Jobs May 1981 Liverpool to London – (10 – 27 May 1982) 1st. Anniversary Exhibition. Photographs by unemployed people from Liverpool, Birmingham and London. Project by Jovan Djordjevic sponsored by several unions hired from CRIS Community Arts, Coventry. Photographs by John Harvey, Julie Pearce, Mick Doran and Robert Hills.

Politics: Media: Entertainment (Media coverage of the Iranian Embassy Siege, London 1980). Produced by BFI Education (5 Jan – 2 Feb 1983)

Posters 1972/1982 – The Poster Collective. 16 June-14 July 1982

Race and Representation (1989)

Schooling and Culture– Four Approaches to Cultural Studies in Secondary Schools- (22 Oct-22 Nov 1979) The opening exhibition at the Holborn Gallery consisted of 4 pieces of work. The Culture of the School would become The Good Ones Have their Top Buttons Done Up which was later a touring show, Using Photography by Paul Carter at Blackfriars Community Photography Project was hired from the Half Moon Photography Workshop, the Cockpit’s own Style exhibition was one of the first in their Schools Photography Project and Approaches to Urban Education from CUES which would also became a Cockpit touring show.

See for Yourself – an exhibition about community photography produced by Rentasnap Photo Library (10 – 27 Jan 1984)

See Red Women’s Workshop – an exhibition showing 7 years of women’s posters (20 April – 11 May)

Sister Seven – 6 women convey their feelings about nuclear energy & weapons (12 Oct – 11 Nov 1982)

The Cage is Fixed – Disability and Access. Julie Mimmack (29 Sept – 3 Oct 1981)

The Operation was Successful but the Patient Died – posters and photomontages by Lorraine Leeson & Peter Dunn. Work began in 1978 as part of the Bethnal Green Hospital Campaign. East London Health Project (4 Mar – 8 April)

Unfulfilled Journey – Britain’s Greek Cypriot Community in the 1930s. Haris Pellapaisiotis/ Axis Photo Co-Operative (5 – 26 June 1985)

Using Photography… – Blackfriars Photography Project. Hired from Half Moon Photography Workshop (8 Oct – 31 Oct 1979) as part of the opening Cultural Studies exhibition.

We are Human Too – Sam Tanner: an essay in understanding. Photographs of children with disabilities and of disabled people in the performing arts (12 Jan – 4 Feb 1987)

Who Are You Looking At… Photos from Clapton Youth Centre (1 – 23 March)

Who’s Zoomin Who? Media Studies from North Westminster School & Heroines & Heroes from Holland Park School (8 Oct – 12 Nov 1987)

Work in Progress (1981 – 2)