Harrodsburg

In March 2017 BBC4 TV will screen a 30 minute documentary about Dougie Wallace, which focuses primarily on the Harrodsburg work and is part of the series 'What Artists Do All Day'. The programme follows Dougie on the streets of Knightsbridge as he completes the photographs for the book. In Harrodsburg, Dougie Wallace looks at the excessive wealth and consumerism that can be found around the Knightsbridge area close to the world famous department store, Harrods. From the mid-1970s onwards, Gulf millionaires began coming to the area. They were later joined by the Oligarchs and the Hedgies, in a phenomenon that now involves all the various tribes of the global super-rich buying up Londonproperties as if they were assets to appreciate in value rather than homes in which to live. The work is a powerful, timely and stark exposé of the emergence of this ultra-affluent elite who are changing the face of the city, pricing out not just ordinary people but even the upper middle class natives of Central London, and marginalising old wealth from their time-honoured habitats. Employing his trademark wit and keen eye for the absurd, Wallace has produced an uncompromising and revealing series of pictures which draw attention to the excesses of the super rich in powerful and direct detail. Harrodsburg is introduced by cultural commentator Peter York, perhaps best known for his best-selling1970's classic The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook. Most recently, in November 2016 he presented PeterYork's Hipster Handbook on BBC4.