Six-month Artist Residency with the National Maritime Museum

I was Artist in Residence at the National Maritime Museum as part of Traveller’s Tails, a project delving into ideas around the history of exploration, art and science.

I spent six months at a Pop Up Museum in Lewisham Shopping Centre, working with a diverse community of people - many of whom would never dream of stepping over the threshold of a ‘real’ museum. Together with collaborators as part of Cracked Light Artist Collective, I explored ideas through film, poetry, performance, installations and audio artworks.

You can read more about the residency on my blog.

Cracked Light’s residency culminated in a takeover of the Queens House at the National Maritime Museum. We aimed to celebrate the people, stories and artwork from our six months in Lewisham Shopping Centre, while subverting ideas of who ‘belongs’ in the Queen’s House.

The takeover weekend included live music and food, as well as audio artworks, AR superimposing of community artworks & portraits over existing exhibitions, immersive performance, installations, and family craft activity.

Travellers’ Tails was a Cracked Light Artist Collective project, with collaborators Dan Rollings and Simon Watt.