Monika Feuerstein - The Roaring '20s

Wednesday 19 March - Sunday 6 April 2025 

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This exhibition is inspired by the fascinating era of social change and popular entertainment.

The Roaring Twenties refers to the 1920s decade in music, fashion, design as it happened in a post-World War I western society and western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe.

Jazz blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for women and art deco peaked. They would dance the Charleston, the shimmy and the bunny hug. The women would go out in public without chaperones and attended speakeasies where they drank and smoked. The liveliness of the period stands in marked contrast to the historical crises of the decades either side and there was a mood of exuberant optimism.