British Culture Archive licensed Tony Davis’s photograph Ravers at The Eclipse, Coventry, 1991 for Westwood | Kawakubo at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
The exhibition ran at NGV International from 7 December 2025 to 19 April 2026, bringing British rave photography into a wider exploration of fashion and youth culture.
Made at The Eclipse in Coventry in 1991, the photograph is part of Tony Davis’s wider record of Britain’s early rave scene. His archive documents clubgoers, dancefloors and the social life surrounding the music.
Westwood | Kawakubo paired the work of Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. The NGV exhibition brought together more than 140 designs, with photography, film and archive material alongside the garments.
Davis’s photograph brings the dancefloor into that history: the people and clothes of British club culture at the beginning of the 1990s.
Exhibition
Westwood | Kawakubo
Venue
NGV International
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Dates
7 December 2025–19 April 2026
BCA’s contribution
Image licensing for Tony Davis’s Ravers at The Eclipse, Coventry, 1991.
British Culture Archive works with curators, museums and galleries to research and license British documentary photography for exhibitions and publications.
For enquiries about Tony Davis’s work or other represented archives, contact BCA about image licensing.