Something-to-be-done (2013) video installation, Where is the work group show, Sheffield Hallam University.
Something-to-be-Done
Something-to-be-Done documents the last Lever Lace machines still running in Nottingham — vast, intricate Victorian mechanisms whose rhythm and noise fill the film. In the background, barely audible beneath the sound of the machines, my grandfather can be heard singing. The recording was made in the final weeks of his life.
The film is a document of two disappearances at once: an industry at the end of its life, and a person at the end of theirs. It was made following my discovery of my family's connection to the Nottingham lace trade, and forms part of an ongoing body of work around that history.
Shown at Where Is the Work, a group exhibition at Sheffield Hallam University, 2013.