Plenty of smiles at exhibition launch

There was double the smiles as a photographic exhibition focusing on Spalding people launched at a town museum.

The Portrait Promenade exhibition at the Spalding Gentlmen’s Society was the culmination of two Arts Council grants.

South Holland District Council and Transported Arts put on Super Saturdays events in Spalding town centre and photographer Steve Hatton, of Electric Egg, created 30 portraits of shoppers and traders.

Independently Spalding Gentlemen’s Society applied for a grant to promote the society and to enable the Museum to be open on Wednesdays from 11am to 1pm to non-members.

SGS chairman Petronella Keeling said: “We joined Transported Arts to show Steve’s really great images of the town, its people and clothes, using Burgess prints, glass plate images and clothes from the museum’s collection to compare and contrast life past and present.

“The launch went really well with a number of those featured in portraits attending alongside dignitaries.”

The exhibition runs until June 19 and as well as 11am to 1pm Wednesdays, is accessible 2pm to 4pm on Sunday, April 17 and May 15 and 11am to 4pm on Sunday, June 19.

Pictures by Steve Hatton, of Electric Egg.

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