[Diggers350] Thu24Sep26, Nottingham, Tash's 1970s/80s convoy protest pix, exhibition launch

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Apologies,  nowt for a month or so then an unprecedented 4 posts in a day 😳 Planets must be aligning! Pls fwd to anyone you know who lives near Nottingham. 
Nb. Tash's exhibition is open, free, mon-sat FrIday 25 sep to SatURDAY 12 December 2026
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Exhibition launch: Alan Lodge – Common Grounds / The Velvet Acronyms – It’s a Wonderful Protest

Join us for the launch of the first exhibition in our 2026-27 season, a major survey of photographer Alan Lodge (b. 1953), whose work has documented British counterculture, protest movements and grassroots activism for more than five decades.




https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/exhibition-launch-alan-lodge-common-grounds-the-velvet-acronyms-its-a-wonderful-protest/

Featuring more than 100 photographs alongside 35mm slide projections, moving-image works, personal archives, and previously unseen material, Common Grounds provides an expansive overview of Lodge’s practice and of a life dedicated to activism.

Enjoy a free welcome drink, delicious food (first come, first served!) and music.
   
   - Free, all welcome
   - Photography will be taking place (please let our photographer know if you don’t wish to have your photo taken)
   - Refreshments and music
   - There is a lift and stair access to the Gallery, and an accessible toilet

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   - Thu 24 Sep 2026

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6 pm – 8 pm

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Lodge’s work has appeared in publications and journals worldwide. His photographs have also been featured in documentaries and films, including Operation Solstice for Channel 4, Jeremy Deller’s BBC documentary Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2018) and most recently Aaron Trinder’s documentary Free Party: A Folk History (2023). He was interviewed for Daniel Ward’s film, Lonesome Ghosts (2025), shown at Peer, London and spoke to Stewart Lee about the Battle of the Beanfield in the R4 podcast ‘What happened to Counter-Culture?’
Alan Lodge: Castlemorton festival, Malvern, Worcestershire, May 1992
Alan Lodge’s work has been shown in exhibitions across the UK including Radical Landscapes (2022) at Tate Liverpool. International exhibitions include Black & White Surveillance (2020) with TG at the Salon de Normandy, Paris. His work has also appeared in publications & journals including The Guardian, Independent, i-D, Select, Café Royal Books, Sounds, Purple, Huck Magazine, Flash Art, DJ, Radio Times, New Statesmen & Society and Squall. His publications include Stonehenge: Solstice Ritual, a photographic account of the rituals taking place at Stonehenge.
Alan received a BA(hons) (1993) and MA (2013) in Photography from Nottingham Trent University.

alanlodge.co.uk

A publication featuring an interview between Alan Lodge and Jeremy Deller will be available during the exhibition.
More information about Alan Lodge
After a brief career as an emergency paramedic in the London Ambulance Service, Alan “Tash” Lodge took up photography and documented the emerging free festival movement in the late 1970s. In 1985, Lodge and his family joined the Peace Convoy on its annual journey to Stonehenge, where he was involved with, and photographed, the clashes between the police and travelers in what became known as the Battle of the Beanfield, resulting in one of the most violent mass arrests in British history.

In 1990, Lodge moved to Nottingham to study photography at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University), where he became involved with the city’s influential music collective DiY Sound System, which held free parties across the UK. Among his most celebrated images are those capturing partygoers at Castlemorton Common in Wiltshire, widely regarded as the largest illegal rave in British history, which led to the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994. 

In recent years Lodge has continued to extensively document his involvement and attendance of public demonstrations and festivals, and is active in various welfare and advice agencies, including Festival Welfare.  Lodge is known for his documentation of police surveillance and was a regular contributor to Indymedia UK. His website offers guidance on the rights of photographers documenting public places and demonstrations. 



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   - Fri 25 Sep 2026 - Sat 12 Dec 2026

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Mon – Fri: 10-5
   
Sat: 11-3


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   - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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