Saturday Girl About Town Photographic Portraiture Exhibition & Artist Talk

To celebrate the launch of our new exhibition, Chester Saturday Girl About Town by Casey Orr, we are holding a launch event and the most inspirational ‘Artist Talk’ on Saturday 30th April between 3pm and 4pm - free tickets are limited to 25. Casey is also here all day to meet and chat.

The event will be an opportunity to view the new exhibition and runs for 2 weeks in The Cavern at Watergate Street Gallery which is a collection of portraits taken in Chester. The current iteration of Saturday Girl explores how young folks are reclaiming the high street in the post-pandemic era. Representing the huge variety of styles, personalities and interests found within our communities in Chester. 

Saturday Girl is an ongoing, award winning project by photographer Casey Orr. The series of images has been exhibited in multiple locations, and now the collection of portraits taken around Chester will be coming to the Watergate Street Gallery. 

Casey Orr is an American photographer, her work has been displayed and published around the world, including exhibitions in; New York University of the Arts, Tate Liverpool, Philadelphia San Antonio College Gallery, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. And published in; The Observer, The Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Photography Magazine, and on the walls of HM Prison Leeds. Casey is a member of the Feminist Art Collective and her work for Saturday Girl has won awards including the Format Festival Award.

Casey will be joining us for the event on Saturday, so do come down and have a chat with her as well as well as enjoying our hospitality.

Find us at: Watergate Street Gallery, 60/62 Watergate Street, Chester, CH1 2LA

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Find out more about the Saturday Girl project by visiting Casey Orr’s website.