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Social Climber

Installation, suggesting a small office with a desk facing a window, featuring cork board with collected and treated photographs of night climbers at Cambridge College, plus wall text quoting one of the climbers who later became an architect, and a framed obituary detailing the life of the climbers' wife.

Social Climber installation view

The quote on the wall reads:

wall text

'I gave up climbing after university and went on to fight during World War Two. After that I worked at designing blocks of flats using a pre-cast concrete technique I invented. I loved climbing and it amused me to do it, but that was my misspent youth. What I'm far more proud of is the building work I did later.'

cork board with climbers' photos