Tom Wood’s second solo show with the gallery features a previously unexhibited body of photographs “Looking for Love” taken from 1982 until 1985 in the Chelsea Reach Nightclub, New Brighton, North England’s first disco pub (opened in 1968). The 31 predominantly color photographs offer an anthropological glimpse into a world of youthful hopes and desires. In the dark of the dance floor, women glitter, showing off their latest fashions: luxurious hair stylishly tussled, ‘dangly’ earrings, ‘plassie’ jewelry, and cosmetics suggesting sexual excitement. Dressed in regular jeans and shirts, men eye up the girls and fuel on beer to find the courage to engage in the courtship rituals of disco dancing. Appearing at the evenings’ onset almost like members of different species, the two sexes just discover themselves, the boys out for a ‘good time’, the girls for love and ‘meaningful relationships’, perhaps. The photographs exude a raw vitality undercut by the artist’s approach to his subjects which is as respectful as it is voyeuristic, as committed as it is ‘cold blooded’. Strangely silenced by the camera, every movement and every gesture becomes stark and uncomfortable in the pictures’ shallow flashlight space - a fascinating crush of booze drenched bodies, hands groping bums, flickering tongues, bleary eyes, ‘fag’ smoke and sweat.