Keepers of the Light, 2019-20

Keepers of the Light, 2019-20

Keepers of the Light, 2019-20 Book, film, installations The Portland Bill lighthouse is iconic. Operational from 1906, it was equipped with a magnificent First Order catadioptric rotating lens from Chance Brothers of Smethwick, about as far away from the sea as you...
Made in Oldbury, 2017-18

Made in Oldbury, 2017-18

Made in Oldbury, 2016-17 Website, events, exhibitions, publications A thousand years ago, Oldbury, Langley and Warley were three ‘vills’, settlements too small to be even mentioned in the Domesday book. The area lies on the South Staffordshire coalfield and the...
Borderland Atlantis, 2013-15

Borderland Atlantis, 2013-15

Borderland Atlantis, 2013-15 Web site, documentation A two-year project of cross-border cooperation between partners from Poland, Lithuania and Russia. This involved young people in a series of creative workshops in three locations – Sejny, Kėdainiai and Kaliningrad –...
Jubilee Arts Archive, 2022-23

Jubilee Arts Archive, 2022-23

Jubilee Arts Archive, 2022-23 Web site, photography, text, exhibitions In 1974, when men last walked on the moon, in England, significant local government reorganisation brought into being the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, part of the urban conurbation of the West...
Another Time, Another Place, 2013

Another Time, Another Place, 2013

Another Time, Another Place, 2013 Book, exhibition, films, events This year long project explored what it was really like to be evacuated as part of Operation Pied Piper during the Second World War, through the shared stories and experiences of those directly...