About Plenty and Progress

Mark Titchner’s room installation examines civic design and aspiration in Blackpool where Progress is our civic motto. Titchner has created mirror installations in the room which reference Claudegen – the original French neon sign company established by George Claude who invented the neon tube in 1910 and who designed a number of unrealised installations for Blackpool’s Illuminations in the 1930s. In this room the guest becomes an integral part of the art – with your reflections and shadows created by the lights allowing you to be in the picture and contemplate what it means to have plenty and to progress.