Melanie Warner is an Installation Artist based in London.
Melanie has been photographing toilet signs around the world since 2006 and now has almost 1500 photographs in her collection. Fascinated by the different pictograms used to depict ‘male’ and ‘female’ in different countries and cultures, Melanie’s collection continues to grow as she travels to various places around the globe.
During 2007, Melanie spent 100 hours working on the alteration and refurbishment of a portaloo, turning it into what is now the ‘Bog Standard Gallery’. This tiny, yet traditional art gallery space exhibits just 24 photographs of toilet signs from her ‘Bog Standard Signs’ collection. The Bog Standard Gallery is believed to be the smallest art gallery in the world and is currently on a tour around various locations in the UK recently receiving it’s 48,000th visitor.
Owing to the growing size of the ‘Bog Standard Signs’ collection, Melanie has been exhibiting this series of work in other locations. These include Urbis in Manchester, and the Toilet Gallery in London.
Please visit www.bogstandardsigns.com for more information.
On this Blog, you can read the story of the galleries development, from the purchase of the portaloo, up to the end result.
…and if you want to have the chance of having one of your photographs up in the gallery, you can email photographs of toilet signs or from anywhere in the world to info@bogstandardgallery.com and don’t forget to include the signs location!
You can also email info@bogstandardgallery.com for if you have any questions of would like more information.
Hope to see you in Bog Standard Gallery soon…
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Very impressed. Do have fun in South Africa. xxx
hi. i saw your caravan a few years ago at a university exhabition and picked up a postcard. i didnt know you did the bog standard gallary as well, i saw that to. but maybe on a differnt exhabition, i cant remember. but i still belive your work is the best in the exhabition, i must have spent about an hour and a half in the caravan just soaking it all up. i especialy like the numberplate. my freinds and I adored it and i actualy went back to the exhabition (from blackpool) draggging my mum along but we couldnt find it again. she was rather anoyed we had to go all the way to manchester or where ever it was to see a yellow caravan,, she probably wouldnt have understood it anyway. lol unfortunate.
anyhooo,, i still have your postcard of the yellow tea cup bluetaked to my artroom wall. and i thought id see if you had any more art i could be inspired and amazed buy, hope so.. ill be seeking you out as exhibitions for the rest of my life… you know sometimes one artist is just the one for you..?? well sorry,, but you found yourself a stalker. lol man,, this is a long coment.. you should probably delete it,, as the spelling is bound to be atrotious. please write back, it would be an honor to hear from you,,, but i wont expect it. bow bow bow.