Kingston School of Art student, Maggie Perrin is holding an immersive pop-up exhibition about how mass tourism to the Spanish Costa evolved into a new kind of social revolution at the FUSEBOX this Friday and Saturday, 13 September and 14 September.

Perrin has organised the event in collaboration with Kingston School of Art.

Logo for the exhibition inspired Perrin's drawing of the sun by graphic designer Maximo. 1965 (Credit: Maggie Perrin)

She said: "Officially it's the culmination of my Masters in Museum Studies at the school of art but it's an idea that I've been developing for a few years.

"The focus is on mass tourism to Spain from the early days in the 1950s when travel was made affordable for normal working people to the excesses of the later years of the twentieth century to today when local people are marching on the street demanding an urgent rethink of the decades-old tourist model that has ended up destroying so much of what it promotes."

The exhibition will "tell story about selling the dream", said Perrin.

The exhibition's themes will include:

Transformation.

Culture Clash.

Excess.

Protest.

A journey via food, fashion, film and photography.

Perrin said: "Travel expands the mind, connects us to other ways of life. It changes the way we live, eat, drink, think and dress."

She said that "The Holiday Revolution will look at how the desire to travel overseas evolved into a new kind of social revolution."

"It will take us on a journey from the heyday in the 1950s and 60s to the pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap package holidays that began to dominate in the 70s and 80s.

"We'll see how the relentless march of tourism is now destroying what it promotes, and we ask - can we still sell the dream without selling out?'" she said.

Holiday magazine Illustrated by George Giusti April 1965

The Holiday Revolution exhibition will run from 11am-3pm on both Friday and Saturday.