Olympic Park artist Neville Gabie is mounting a pop-up exhibition in Bath in support of the Big Bath City Bid, a campaign to bring Bath City FC into community ownership.
A keen football fan, Gabie has photographed hundreds of improvised goalposts around the world over the past twenty years – from painted lines on suburban Belfast walls to makeshift poles in the deserts of South Africa.
Evoking the universal grassroots culture of the “beautiful game”, Gabie’s “Posts” series has formed the basis of exhibitions at Tate Modern, Tokyo’s Metropolitan Museum of Photography and museums in Johannesburg, Osaka, Lisbon, Skopie and Nuremberg.
Gabie has now selected 11 photographs (to represent the number of players on a football team) for display in Bath.
From 22nd July to 31st July, the photographs will appear in a shopfront on New Bond Street Parade, near the bottom of Milsom Street opposite the Volunteer Rifleman’s Arms.
After this, the exhibition will spread throughout the city with each photograph displayed in a different local business or organisation, before being brought together again at a to-be-determined venue for a final exhibition.
Bookseller Waterstones and restaurant Yammo have already agreed to take part.
The photographs are all for sale, with part of the proceeds going towards the Big Bath City Bid.
Gabie was the artist-in-residence during the construction of the London Olympic Park and has completed projects with community-owned club FC United of Manchester and Middlesborough FC, among many others.
He is a keen supporter of Forest Green Rovers.