People Making Things Happen

People Making Things Happen

2022

A project documenting the 10 year history of The Mill in Walthamstow, through the stories of the people who were involved from the days when the building was a library, through the campaign against its closure, and the setting up of the well loved community resource...
Lightboxes and Lettering

Lightboxes and Lettering

2020

‘Lightboxes and Lettering’ was a major project focussing on the pre-digital era of printing in Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Clerkenwell, and the experiences of people involved in the industry. Lucy Harrison led the project with Rosa Ainley as part...
Trellis: No Smell, No Dirt, No Trouble

Trellis: No Smell, No Dirt, No Trouble

2019

  A project commissioned by UCL as part of Trellis, which matched artists with UCL researchers for projects around the East Bank development in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Lucy Harrison and researcher Efstathia Kostopoulou (Bartlett School of Architecture,...
Not a Split Second

Not a Split Second

2017

Remembering the Docklands bomb: a collaboration with George Legg, exploring the legacy of the 1996 IRA bomb at South Quay, London.   What are the unwritten memories of an explosion loaded with political significance? On 9 February 1996 the IRA detonated a 3,000...
Carnaby Echoes

Carnaby Echoes

2013

Carnaby Echoes investigated the musical history of the Carnaby estate (Carnaby Street and the surrounding streets), over a 100-year period from the opening of Murray’s club in Beak Street in 1913. This history encompasses diverse musical styles, including jazz,...
Hostings @ Archway Library

Hostings @ Archway Library

2013

Residency at Archway Library, London, between September 2012 and January 2013, part of  Hostings / A Million Minutes. Two newspapers and an audio tour of the library, read by a member of library staff, were launched at the end of the project. A Million Minutes was an...
Mapping Your Manor

Mapping Your Manor

2011

Mapping Your Manor was a project made on the outskirts of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2011, when building work was still ongoing. It consisted of a series of audio recordings made with people who live or work close to the edge of the Park, many of them made in...
Canvey Guides

Canvey Guides

2007

A public art project, part of ‘Art U Need; An Outdoor Revolution’, curated by Bob & Roberta Smith and included in the book ‘Art U Need- My Part in the Public Art Revolution’, published by Black Dog 2007. Canvey Guides archived website can...
A Case of Identity

A Case of Identity

1999

Audio CD, 9 mins Recorded in an interview room at Stoke Newington Police Station, a recording of a police officer reading all the questions from the Sherlock Holmes story ‘A Case of Identity’ as if they were an interview. There are no answers to the...

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