In 2014, 45 crates of looted antiquities were discovered at Geneva Freeport in a warehouse belonging to disgraced antiquities dealer Robin Symes. They contained tens
Dust to Data tracks through the colonial history of archaeology, to current parallels in the data mining of DNA and social media image banks. Working
Filmmaker and artist Alberta Whittle traces Transatlantic ancestral trauma through her own voice, in song and spoken word and through her body.
Whittle’s 2019 filmwork What Sound Does the Blk Atlantic Make? departed from a visit to the archives of the North British Rubber Company, founded in
Alberta Whittle’s Sorry, not sorry focuses on the pressure put on the Windrush generation to represent conflicting identities: the exotic with the alien; the carefree
Throughout 2019 artist Larry Achiampong developed new work in response to his residency with Waltham Forest Council. Working within an abandoned supermarket in Leyton, the
“The Third World was not a place, but a project.” (Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations, 2007). This was to be a utopian alliance where the
Sunday’s Best is a film and installation comprised of vivid audio and images of praise and worship sessions in a Ghanaian community church, married with
the destructors is shot on location in Tower Hamlets, east London. Reflecting on Perretta’s experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the work reconsiders
A Distant Echo is a feature film that explores themes of myth, identity, culture and the construction of history. Shot on 35mm film, A Distant
A collaged film work that takes open access online film clips to asks questions about personal responsibility, empathy and action. Moments in history knock up
Untitled (Eyemo rolls) is an ongoing body of over 200 individual 35mm camera rolls shot with Bell & Howell Eyemo 35mm film camera in various
Exploring social histories through film, photography, print, text and performances, Helen Cammock creates multiple and layered narratives that are not linear, allowing the cyclical nature
Inspired by the forgotten histories, photographs and artworks uncovered in Wysing Arts Centre’s archive, Cammock’s new film acts as a reflection on the politics of
Changing Room is a video piece centred around the ceramic works made by George Cammock throughout his life, set in a space that has been
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