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PLATFORM: ZINE LAUNCH EVENT

21 March 2024

Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour

4 March - 28 February 2025

Exhibitions

Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words @ New Adelphi

4 March - 8 March 2024

Past Events

CREATIVE SOCIAL: IN THE ABSENCE OF FORMAL GROUND

2 March 2024

Exhibitions

We Feed The UK @ Exterior Walls

8 February - 31 March 2024

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Contrail Cirrus: the impact of aviation on climate change

7 March 2024

Exhibitions

Tree Story @ Liverpool ONE

16 February 2024

Open Source #27: Saffron Lily – In The Absence of Formal Ground @ Digital Window Gallery

6 February - 31 March 2024

Past Events

Contemporary Photography from Ukraine: Symposium @University of Salford

4 March - 5 March 2024

Past Events

Is Anybody Listening? Symposium: Commissioning and Collecting Socially Engaged Photography

29 February 2024

Past Events

Different approaches: Artists working with scientists

15 February 2024

Events

LOOK Climate Lab 2024: All Events

18 January 2024

Exhibitions

Diesel & Dust @ Digital Window Gallery

18 January - 31 March 2024

Events

Tree Walks Of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku

21 January 2024

Past Events

Artists Remake the World by Vid Simoniti: Book Launch

31 January 2024

Past Events

Shift Liverpool Open Meeting

6 February 2024

Past Events

We Feed The UK Launch and LOOK Climate Lab 2024 Celebration

8 February 2024

Past Events

Cyanotype workshop with Melanie King

17 February 2024

Past Events

End of Empire: artist talk and discussion

22 February 2024

Past Events

Book Launch: What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes

24 February 2024

Past Events

Local ecology in the post-industrial era: open discussion

14 March 2024

Events

Plant a seed. Seed sow and in conversation with Plot2Plate

16 March 2024

Events

Waterlands: creative writing workshop

23 March 2024

Events

Erosion: panel discussion

9 March 2024

Events

Waterlands: an evening of poetry and photographs

23 March 2024

Events

Force For Nature Exhibition

27 March - 28 March 2024

Voices of Nature: Interactive Performances

28 March 2024

Past Events

Sum of All Parts: Symposium

27 February 2024

Exhibitions Main Exhibition

LOOK Climate Lab 2024

18 January - 31 March 2024

Past Events

MA Socially engaged photography Open Day event

1 February 2023

Past Events

Tish: Special screening and Q&A

13 December 2023

Past Events

Book Launch: A Look At A New Perspective

23 November 2023

Events

Community workshops @ Ellesmere Port Library

6 November - 5 February 2024

Past Events

Book Launch: ‘544m’ By Kevin Crooks

30 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Bernice Mulenga @ Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space

17 November - 17 December 2023

Past Events

Bernice Mulenga: Artist Talk

18 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Local Roots @ The Atkinson

14 October 2023

Exhibitions

Community @ Ellesmere Port Library

26 October - 11 April 2024

Past Events

Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023

Past Events

Deeds Not Words: panel discussion

12 October 2023

Past Exhibitions

Deeds Not Words @ Atrium Space

3 October - 22 October 2023

Ode To Our Space @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

A Look At A New Perspective @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

Past Events

Book Launch: Crow Dark Dawn

19 October 2023

Past Events

Exhibition Launch: A Place of Our Own

28 September 2023

Reflections

12 September - 22 December 2023

Past Events

Sandra Suubi ‘Samba Gown’ Procession

9 September 2023

Exhibitions Future Exhibitions

A Place of Our Own

29 September - 22 December 2023

Past Events

POETRY BOOK LAUNCH: JACK BENNETT – LUNETTE

7 September 2023

Exhibitions

A Portrait of the High Street @ Prescot

31 August 2023

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St Helens

PUBLIC INSTALLATION

WORLD OF GLASS FOOTBRIDGE, ST HELENS

 

‘Where Things Are Different’ is a photographic project based around the space shared by the post-industrial communities of St Helens today. Generations of workers live their lives together, gathering memories, telling stories and creating folklore. This project focuses on how this community understands the past, and how the past shapes its understanding of the present.

 

Focusing upon the experiences that aren’t documented in books or curated in museums but only exist as stories amongst people, Where Things are Different is a project that explores how fact and fiction operate within the context of community.

 

King worked closely for several months with members and groups of St Helens post-industrial communities – Beechams, Pilkingtons, historical and restoration societies, miners and labour club entertainers. His project sought to unearth the shared experience that resides within these now displaced workforces. Taking the form of social get-togethers, many hours of informal conversations were recorded and then transcribed to create sources for unpicking accounts and imagery. Many of these same participants and community members went on to collaborate and perform in King’s images, many of which were constructed reenactments of memories.

 

The final photographs take the form of large-scale (2.5 x 2m) light boxes on the banks of the Sankey Canal. Located at the back of Pilkington’s Glass Works, for decades pipes pumped out warm water from the glass making process into this section of canal, known locally as The Hotties, which – according to folklore – for many years supported a thriving ecosystem of tropical fish, discarded by a local pet shop owner.

 

Culture Shifts is supported by Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund. Delivered in partnership with Heart of Glass, St Helens.

PUBLIC INSTALLATION

WORLD OF GLASS FOOTBRIDGE, ST HELENS

 

‘Where Things Are Different’ is a photographic project based around the space shared by the post-industrial communities of St Helens today. Generations of workers live their lives together, gathering memories, telling stories and creating folklore. This project focuses on how this community understands the past, and how the past shapes its understanding of the present.

 

Focusing upon the experiences that aren’t documented in books or curated in museums but only exist as stories amongst people, Where Things are Different is a project that explores how fact and fiction operate within the context of community.

 

King worked closely for several months with members and groups of St Helens post-industrial communities – Beechams, Pilkingtons, historical and restoration societies, miners and labour club entertainers. His project sought to unearth the shared experience that resides within these now displaced workforces. Taking the form of social get-togethers, many hours of informal conversations were recorded and then transcribed to create sources for unpicking accounts and imagery. Many of these same participants and community members went on to collaborate and perform in King’s images, many of which were constructed reenactments of memories.

 

The final photographs take the form of large-scale (2.5 x 2m) light boxes on the banks of the Sankey Canal. Located at the back of Pilkington’s Glass Works, for decades pipes pumped out warm water from the glass making process into this section of canal, known locally as The Hotties, which – according to folklore – for many years supported a thriving ecosystem of tropical fish, discarded by a local pet shop owner.

 

Culture Shifts is supported by Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund. Delivered in partnership with Heart of Glass, St Helens.

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