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British Culture Archive at Tate Britain: The 90s: Art and Fashion

Works by British Culture Archive photographers Jon Shard, Mark McNulty, Peter J. Walsh and Tony Davis feature in The 90s: Art and Fashion at Tate Britain.

Exhibition dates
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Venue
Tate Britain, London
Guest curator
Edward Enninful
Clubgoers at Flesh at The Haçienda, Manchester, 1995. Photograph by Jon Shard.
Flesh at The Haçienda, 1995Photo © Jon Shard / BCA. All rights reserved.

British club culture at Tate Britain

Guest curated by Edward Enninful, The 90s: Art and Fashion brings together art, photography and fashion to examine a decade that reshaped British visual culture. Club culture, identity and class form part of that wider picture.

British Culture Archive supported Tate’s research and access to selected photographic material, overseeing permissions and the production of exhibition prints for works by Shard, McNulty, Walsh and Davis. The selected work includes photographs taken at The Haçienda and Cream, alongside images of Britain’s rave and club culture.

The exhibition also includes photography by Mischa Haller, whose work Tate first viewed through British Culture Archive during his earlier time with BCA.

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Featured BCA photographers

A selection from the photographers’ wider archives.

Flesh at The Haçienda, Manchester, 1995. Photograph by Jon Shard.
Flesh at The Haçienda, 1995.
Photo © Jon Shard / BCA. All rights reserved.

Jon Shard

Jon Shard’s photographs document Flesh, the influential LGBTQ+ club night held at The Haçienda between 1991 and 1996. Taken while Shard was closely involved with Manchester’s club culture, the work records the people, fashion and social freedom associated with one of the club’s defining nights.

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Voodoo, Liverpool, 1990s. Photograph by Mark McNulty.
Voodoo, Liverpool, 1990s.
Photo © Mark McNulty / BCA. All rights reserved.

Mark McNulty

Mark McNulty photographed Liverpool’s music and clubland throughout the 1990s, including Cream, Quadrant Park and Garlands. His archive documents the development of club culture in the city and the audiences, DJs and venues that shaped it.

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Hot night at The Haçienda, Manchester, 1988. Photograph by Peter J. Walsh.
Hot night at The Haçienda, 1988.
Photo © Peter J. Walsh / BCA. All rights reserved.

Peter J. Walsh

Peter J. Walsh began photographing Manchester’s music and nightlife during the 1980s and continued through the emergence of acid house and Madchester. His work includes photographs taken at The Haçienda, documenting the club, its fashions and the people who were part of the scene.

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Colour photograph of ravers dancing at The Eclipse in Coventry in 1991. A man in a red Mo’ Better Blues bucket hat fills the foreground, with dancers raising their arms behind him, including one wearing a blue T-shirt and another a white Coca-Cola top.
Ravers at The Eclipse, Coventry, 1991.
Photo © Tony Davis / BCA. All rights reserved.

Tony Davis

Tony Davis photographed Britain’s rave culture during the early 1990s, including events at Nottingham’s Marcus Garvey Centre, The Eclipse in Coventry and gatherings connected to Shelley’s Laserdome. His photographs record the clubs, motorway services and temporary communities surrounding the rave scene.

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Work with British Culture Archive

British Culture Archive works with curators, museums, galleries, publishers and picture editors to research, license and exhibit British documentary photography.

For enquiries about the represented works or to discuss an exhibition drawing on BCA’s wider photographer archives, contact our licensing team.