Celebrating the seaside at the National Maritime Museum

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Featuring over 100 works by Martin Parr, David Hurn, Tony Ray-Jones and Simon Roberts, The Great British Seaside explores our changing relationship with the beach over the last six decades

inside the united kingdom no one lives more than seventy two miles from the ocean, and the seashore is entrenched in our way of life because of it. “The shoreline is sizable to Brits whether or not we stay there, or no longer,” says Simon Roberts, who lives inside the beach city of Brighton, and who has returned to the coast over and over in his paintings. Now his snap shots are performing in an exhibition referred to as The remarkable British beach at the national Maritime Museum this spring, alongside work by using David Hurn, Martin Parr and the late Tony Ray-Jones.

Roberts is displaying 21 pics, taken from his projects We English (2007–08), Pierdom (2010–13) and Merrie Albion (2007-2017), all of which recall the human relationship to the land. journeying the ones liminal spaces in which land meets sea, Roberts has picked out tales of trade and improvement, and capturing the info in large format.

“The details are there to be study within the body,” he says, pointing to a photograph he took in 2008 on Blackpool promenade by means of manner of an instance. In it a British-Asian circle of relatives crosses the tram tracks, “taking component in a historically white working class vacation”, their presence well illustrating the changes in the demographics of the British working magnificence inside the closing 50 years. “It’s all within the snippets of data you could garner from the photographs,” Roberts observes.

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