Pin Up: Pop Art and Popular Culture

31 Mar 07 - 4 Aug 07

Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s Pop Art collection is one of the largest outside of London, established 1969/70, when the Art Gallery’s first designated curator David Rogers started to build a collection of contemporary works from the UK and America.

Responding to the changing sounds of the 1960s, social and political attitudes from across the globe, and the development of technology and manufacturing, ‘Pop Artists’ as they were named became modern pioneers and social commentators; working with exciting new materials and in fresh, vibrant styles to reflect the changing contemporary world around them.

Pin Up: Pop Art and Popular Culture is the first of four planned exhibitions to commence over the next two years in the new ground floor triangle gallery space. Displaying both works from Wolverhampton’s collection alongside loans from national and international galleries; artists highlighted include Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, and Eduardo Paolozzi, who all consider themes of nostalgia, heroes and heroines of screen and popular culture and the relationship between media and the celebrity.

Be a star of today and recline on the specially created seating and interactive installation. Whether it’s to read and reminisce, or to find out things for the first time, you’ll get the chance to discover more on the music, the glamour and the film stars of the day and how they influenced the famous Pop Art movement.

Look out for a big change in August, as we introduce Pop Art and Politics in the 1960s, the second exhibition of 2007.