Publications

“Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale spend their time sifting rubbish in the cultural dustbin of modern Britain. This is noticing on an epic scale, poignant and melancholic. Out of it they make art and laughter, a rare combination. Long live The Caravan Gallery!”

Daniel Meadows, the Free Photographic Omnibus.

126 colour photographs by The Caravan Gallery, with essays by Sara-Jayne Parsons, exhibitions curator at the Bluecoat, and Dan Thompson, founder of the Empty Shops Network. Afterword by Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale.

Published by Cornerhouse / The Caravan Gallery, 2011

Available to buy in our shop

“With The Caravan Gallery there is this thing that is very familiar to me. It’s about seeing humour, seeing quirkiness, seeing strangeness in everyday life. It’s not at all contrived, it’s just ‘click’, got it! I like that.”

Paul Smith, Designer

113 colour photographs by The Caravan Gallery, with essays by Andrew Hinton of Pilgrim Films, and Les Buckingham, curator.

Published by The Caravan Gallery, 2009

Available to buy in our shop

‘These photographs represent aspects of leisure, landscape and lifestyle in the UK today; some illustrate current trends and preoccupations such as ‘regeneration’ and the consequences thereof, others arise from chance encounters and accidental discoveries.

Whilst Williams and Teasdale do not shy away from revealing the holes in the fabric of contemporary life, they are equally keen to velebrate the triumph of individual creativity and resourcefulness over the mundane, ordinary and corporate.’

127 colour photographs by The Caravan Gallery, with essays by Alistair Robinson, Programme Director at the Northern Gallery for Comtemporay Art, Sunderland and Rosemary Shirley, artist, writer and curator . Foreword by Joanne Bushnell, Director of Aspex.

Published by Aspex in 2006, reprinted by The Caravan Gallery in 2007.

Welcome to Britain where…

18% of the population ignore their neighbours when out shopping

About 35 people like cress

99% would rather die than arrange a pre-paid funeral

And fewer than 10 (but definitely more than 5) don’t mind queuing

Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale have long been suspicious of the brown signs and rose-tinted visions of tourist brochures. So, armed with a camera and a caravan-cum-gallery, they tirelessly travel the most intriguing of isles, exploring and celebrating the many ordinary and and extraordinary aspects of Britishness – from shop fronts to gardening, seaside resorts to the nation’s love of dogs.

They have made it their mission to reveal the reality and surreality of leisure, landscape and lifestyle in 21st-century Britain and, by combining their photographs with the truly unique thoughts of the British public, have created a beautifully absurd and, at times distressingly perceptive guide to contemporary Britain.

So pack your thermos, knot your hanky and prepare to enter a place where the truth is often stranger than fiction, dead conifers are a garden staple and 17% of people have won meat in a raffle.

Published by Headline Book Publishing 2005

Published by teNeues 2008 (avaiable from Amazon)