exhibition archive

#46
DOME: Ralph Tubbs and the Festival of Britain

curatorial concept and design: Donald Smith

12.09.12 – 20.10.12

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Installation views   1   2


Main Space


Ralph Tubbs

installation view – entrance to main space

 

Ralph Tubbs

Festival of Britain screen print by Herbert J. Williams

 

Ralph Tubbs

vitrine display with Festival of Britain beer mug and jigsaw

 

Ralph Tubbs

Jigsaw showing an aerial view of the Dome of Discovery and the Southbank Festival site

 

Ralph Tubbs

Sphere magazine Festival of Britain special edition

 

Ralph Tubbs

installation view – main space

 

Ralph Tubbs

vitrine with images of the Dome from various publications

 

Ralph Tubbs

Festival of Britain carafe and glasses with image of the Dome of Discovery and Skylon at night

 

Ralph Tubbs

installation view of main space

 

Ralph Tubbs

chart illustrated proposed grouping of subject areas for the Festival of Britain

 

Ralph Tubbs

workers riveting the roof of the Dome of Discovery

 

Ralph Tubbs

photographs and artist’s impressions

 

Ralph Tubbs

elevation drawing

 

Ralph Tubbs

vitrine with blueprints and photographs of the Dome stairs and escalator

 

Ralph Tubbs

vitrine with roll of drawings

 

Ralph Tubbs

installation view of Main Space

 

Ralph Tubbs

vitrine with Ralph Tubbs’s T-Square, photographs and drawings

 

Ralph Tubbs

detail of T-Square and photograph of Tubbs’s hands in the act of drawing

 

Ralph Tubbs

detail of drawing

 

Ralph Tubbs

drawings, photographs and Ralph Tubbs’s doorbell nameplate

 

Ralph Tubbs

photographs and drawing of Dome roof structure

 

Ralph Tubbs

plan detail

 

Ralph Tubbs

installation view

 

Ralph Tubbs

aerial view of the Southbank Festival of Britain site including the Dome of Discovery and Skylon

 

 

Installation views   1   2