Touch-Line: Exeter Chiefs fans, Sandy Park Stadium
Michelle Sank’s work has been described as ‘visual anthropology’. She is fascinated by how signs and symbols have been adopted as expressions of identity and belonging. In rugby, the photographer found a rich source of material.
Sank documents the colours and flags that signify loyalty and the mascots and figures – a pig’s head, an ‘Indian’ headdress – invested with superstition and magic.
At the same time, Sank explores our experimentation with cultural symbols and codes: a women’s rugby team dressed in pink tutus or a group of male rugby fans dressed in women’s clothing.
Sank documents the colours and flags that signify loyalty and the mascots and figures – a pig’s head, an ‘Indian’ headdress – invested with superstition and magic.
At the same time, Sank explores our experimentation with cultural symbols and codes: a women’s rugby team dressed in pink tutus or a group of male rugby fans dressed in women’s clothing.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 18/2020/10
- Collection Class
- Photographs
- Medium
- digital C-Type photographic print on
- Common Name
- Touch-Line: Exeter Chiefs fans, Sandy Park Stadium
- Simple Name
- photograph
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 16/05/2015
- Production Person Initials
- Michelle
- Production Person Surname
- Sank
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
