Terrain: Anatomical Landscapes, draws inspiration from a year of walking, spanning (to date) over 800 miles. Walks are documented in photography, drawings and writing. This research informs narrative pencil drawings that each represent walks in a single location; exploring the relationship between humans and the outdoor environment, and mixing elements of human anatomy and landscape.  […]

Samuels explores abandoned houses, schools, hospitals and asylums, and takes with her a cast of costumed characters. Her team use the suggested narratives found within the buildings to create disconnected, ethereal and often unsettling images, that play with ideas of memory, story-telling and the reclamation by nature of the man-made structures. Samuels work also explores […]

“Welcome, to The Abandoned Shop Of Curiosities; an emporium which manifests in abandoned shops, and offers  a window into neglected, forbidden and unseen places. The shop invites visitors to interact and explore, to discover strange narratives, and meet furtive creatures from The Abandoned Buildings Project.” The exhibition opened with a Victorian Tea Party, Jan 13th […]

Abandoned in the city: Boxed Dioramas offer windows into forbidden places for Manchester and London. Left Artworks: Dioramas and drawings left behind in abandoned spaces. Quiet Interventions/Changing Histories: Photographs from the Abandoned Buildings Project join those already lost to abandoned spaces, subtly changing the history of the space for future visitors, and creating uneasy, strange […]

Public interventions: The Abandoned Buildings Project goes live, at Victoria Baths, Manchester.