Exhibition Ideas

Model of an exhibition proposal for early twentieth century books and magazines; designed by Calum Storrie

Modern Books

Model of an exhibition proposal for early twentieth century books and magazines. London, 2008.

  • Exhibition design: Calum Storrie
  • Graphic design: Lucienne Roberts +
Axonometric drawing for a social history exhibition designed by Calum Storrie Scale model for a social history exhibition designed by Calum Storrie

Social History

Axonometric and model for a demountable exhibition travelling between London and Dresden, 2007.

  • Exhibition design: Calum Storrie
  • Graphic design: Lucienne Roberts +
Axonometric drawing for a painting exhibition; designed by Calum StorrieAxonometric drawings for a painting exhibition; designed by Calum Storrie

Paintings

Axonometrics of proposal for a painting exhibition. London, 2007

  • Exhibition design: Calum Storrie
House of Mirrors, exterior view House of Mirrors, interior view

House of Fairy Tales

The House of Mirrors

  • With Caroline Evans, 2007
  • Photographs: Max Reeves

The House of Mirrors was made for a external link arrow House of Fairy Tales event at Port Elliot Festival. Since then it has been in continual use in various other configurations at numerous venues.

A external link arrow catoptric cistula, also called a catoptric theatre or chest, is a box with several sides lined with mirrors, so as to magnify or multiply images of any object placed inside the box.

‘Rachel was looking into a mirror at an angle of 45 [degrees], and so had a view of the face [of a clock] turned towards the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out.’

Thomas Pynchon, V

‘She was kneeling on the mantelpiece of the sitting room of the place she lived, looking at herself in the mirror. Bored, she breathed on the glass until it clouded over and then, with her finger, she drew a door. The door opened.’

Angela Carter, Alice in Prague or the Curious Room

‘...to do strange miracles by glasses, of which Proclus and Bacon writ of old, burning-glasses, multiplying glasses, perspectives, ut unus homo appareat exercitus’ [which make one man look like an army]…

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (ii, 96)