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Hamiltons is thrilled to debut the gallery's first exhibition with Nick Waplington, marking the release of previously unseen image variants and new works from his iconic series Living Room, 1991.
Nick Waplington’s first book, Living Room, was published in 1991, and was an instant sensation within the photography world and beyond. The 59 photographs in the original edition documented the lives of friends, families, and neighbours on the Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham, England, where Waplington spent many years making thousands of images. This extensive archive of unseen photographs forms the basis of this new conceptual remake of the 1991 monograph, one that revisits and refashions Waplington’s iconic work from a contemporary vantage point. This new work follows the same sequencing of landscape and portrait images as the original edition - replacing each of the 59 photographs with an as-yet-unseen work from the Living Room archive, often from the same roll of film as the original image. The result is both familiar and uncanny, a vivid journey back to Thatcher’s Britain and a testament to the decades of art and life that have elapsed between then and now.
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR86.170), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR90.171), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED, (LR.24 0032R), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR90 180), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR87 196), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR 86. 192), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR88 178 1.4), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR90 175), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR86 197), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington , UNTITLED (LR90 177 .1.4), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR89 191 1.4), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR90 179 1.2), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR90.172), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR93 195), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR96 194), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR.24 0003R), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR.24 0031R), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR.24 0038B), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR.24 0030L), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR 91 193), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR93 176), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR94 176), from the series Living Room, 1985-97
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NICK WAPLINGTON
ARTIST BIOUK and US-based artist Nick Waplington works with photography as a medium to submerge in communities, resulting in personal involvement and visual work. He caught the attention of John Berger and Richard Avedon, along with the rest of the world, in the 1990s with LivingRoom and has since then created recognisable, frank representations of people and their socio-political backgrounds. Beginning in his teenage years, hissubjects have ranged from post Punk youth culture against the backdrop of Thatcherism, to the heyday of House and rave culture in 1990s NYC. In 2008/9 Waplington documented the production of the last collection of Alexander McQueen at his London studio. He continues to work in London and New York on a series of overlapping photographic and art projects.
Waplington has had solo shows as an independent artist across the UK and the USA, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art (The ‘Living Room’ and ‘Circles of Civilization’ Series, 1992), The Photographers’ Gallery London (‘Living Room’ 1990-1991) and more recently Tate Britain (‘Working Process’ 2015). His works have also featured in group shows at the Venice Biennale (‘Learn How To Die the Easy Way’, 2001), Brooklyn Museum in New York City (‘This Place’, 2016) and White Chapel Gallery (June-September 2017).
His works are part of the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Victoria and Albert Museum and Government Art Collection in London and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Alongside being honoured with the Infinity Award: Young Photographer in 1993 by the International Center of Photography in New York City. Waplington practice making books and zines continues with publications like Comprehensive with Phaidon and self-published via Jesus Blue such as Anaglypta.
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Nick Waplington: Living Room
14th March - 25th May