Between August and November 1888, London was the scene of five brutal murders. The killer was dubbed 'Jack the Ripper'. All the women murdered were prostitutes, and all except for one - Elizabeth Stride - were horribly mutilated.
Jack the Ripper had 5 victims, all prostitutes. I have decided to select 5 pieces of work to reflect this, one for each prostitute.
Now i have decided this however it would seem that setting the exhibition in Amsterdam is out of context and would be better off finding somewhere in London and finding the red light district there, or an area with a high level of prostitution being a better location.
The Soho area has been at the heart of London's sex industry for over 200 years. Before the introduction of the Street Offences Act in 1959, prostitutes packed the streets and alleys of Soho and by the early sixties the area was home to nearly a hundred strip clubs
BERWICK STREET hosted the first brothel in Soho in the mid eighteen hundreds. This may be a great place to exhibit my work. This sign was spotted on Berwick Street recently, a sure sign prostitution is still common in the area.
In number 1 Berwick Street there is a sex shop, i have decided to display my work in the window of this shop, alternating 5 pieces of work on February the 14th.
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