The Living Memory Project: The Black Country
The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present the Living Memory Project鈥檚, The Black Country. This exhibition marks the culmination of a four-year engagement with residents of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton in order to record, archive and celebrate everyday life stories and personal photographic collections.
To talk on record, to tell our life鈥檚 story, and give meaning to one鈥檚 personal and treasured photographs is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The experience can be at once emotional, cathartic, enlightening and ultimately life-affirming. To share these stories and photographs with others, online, in print, and through exhibitions, is to make the personal public and invite empathy, understanding and connection. These private stories and treasured images become part of our collective, cultural memory.
Artists from across the region were commissioned to work with community groups and organisations in the Black Country to make new work that responded to the project鈥檚 central themes. From these collaborations the Living Memory Project hosted pop-up exhibitions, guided walks, seminars, collecting events and over 120 community workshops .
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The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present the Living Memory Project鈥檚, The Black Country. This exhibition marks the culmination of a four-year engagement with residents of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton in order to record, archive and celebrate everyday life stories and personal photographic collections.
To talk on record, to tell our life鈥檚 story, and give meaning to one鈥檚 personal and treasured photographs is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The experience can be at once emotional, cathartic, enlightening and ultimately life-affirming. To share these stories and photographs with others, online, in print, and through exhibitions, is to make the personal public and invite empathy, understanding and connection. These private stories and treasured images become part of our collective, cultural memory.
Artists from across the region were commissioned to work with community groups and organisations in the Black Country to make new work that responded to the project鈥檚 central themes. From these collaborations the Living Memory Project hosted pop-up exhibitions, guided walks, seminars, collecting events and over 120 community workshops .
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