Exchange Square

Formerly Empire Square now renamed after the Exchange which stood in Market Square aka Town Hall Square on Northgate Street. The original Exchange building burnt down on 30 December 1862.

In September 2023 the artwork "How to Work Better, 1991" was reproduced on the side of The Forum Building, Exchange Square as part of a major new visual arts event, Chester Contemporary. The artwork started life as a notice put up in a ceramics factory in Thailand.

Other elements of event included the design of a tattoo (copied from a Tin-Tin comic), a cocktail (white port, brandy, cardamom and orange bitters: mulled wine, without the wine and served cold) and a flag (for a boat on the River Dee) based on several flags including the Union of South American Nations; the Flag of Earth; HM Coast Guard; the Principality of Sealand; NASA; Jolly Roger Pirate; United Galactic Federation (N.B. Star Trek has the United Federation of Planets); the Flag of ; Europe; the Progress Pride Flag; the Dune inspired ; Japan; Australia, and Germany. The "local artist" involved wrote:


 * "I worked at a carpet shop in Chester for some time. It was only by going to the Jan Van Eyck Academy later that year that I was prevented from the possibility of working at that shop the rest of my life. It really saved me.""

Related Pages

 * Chester Market;

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 * Chester Northgate;
 * Markthal Rotterdam;