Museum gallery wall covered floor to ceiling in vertical strips of colourful patterned wallpaper and fabric samples — florals, damasks, paisleys, and geometrics. A framed Victorian-era print of a wallpaper shop hangs at the centre. Exposed wooden beam ceiling above, parquet floor below.

Wallpaper Exhibition Wall, Manchester Museum Display

30 September 2019 · Manchester

A full-height installation wall covered in vertical panels of historic and contemporary wallpaper designs — florals, damasks, paisleys, flamingos, and deep-dyed geometrics arranged side by side beneath exposed timber beams. At the centre, a framed period print shows Victorian-era customers browsing a wallpaper showroom, the image held inside the very thing it depicts. The installation makes a single argument: pattern is never incidental, it is the subject.

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