'Everyday style queens' get their own exhibition

Three people walk through Liverpool city centre with rollers in their hair, carrying shopping bagsImage source, The Caravan Gallery
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The exhibition celebrates "everyday style queens"

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From mop tops to curly blows, Liverpool's love of all things hair is the focus of a new photographic display in the city.

Curly Blows, Cuts and Curlers reflects on the social and cultural impact of local identity and how salons and barbers are vital in a city "that isn't afraid to glow up".

Featuring work by local photographers Alex Hurst and Abdullah Badwi, along with Paul Trevor and the Caravan Gallery, the display "celebrates everyday style queens who epitomise the power of hair".

Kay Jones, curator at Museum of Liverpool, said the exhibition tells "a multitude of stories about hair, identity, and the city".

Three customers sat in a row under hairdresser heaters in Pam’s on Coronation Road in Crosby (1998)Image source, Alex Hurst/British Culture Archive
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Three customers in Pam's on Coronation Road in Crosby (1998)

Peter Rimmer and Martin Ross pose in the late 1970sImage source, Peter Rimmer
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Peter Rimmer and Martin Ross, 164 Princes Road, Liverpool 8, 1976/7

"What is very apparent is the importance of salons and barbers in our communities bringing people together, whilst helping us to express our unique personal styles overtime, often in fun and outrageous ways," she said.

"The images have really been brought to life, incorporating the previously untold stories of people featured the photographs alongside the personal insights of the photographers inspired to take the shots."

The free exhibition runs at the Museum of Liverpool from 3 October to 8 March.

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