ABOUT

This piece was in response Inland Arts Festival Future Projects Brief 2016.
To recreate the Cornish Town of 'Redruth' as a modern utopian project.
In researching the history of the town the work responded by incorporating and improvising on the rich history of one of the worlds great industrial towns of the 20th century. From engineers such as William Murdoch & Trevithick, Opera singer Fanny Moody, scientist and folk historian Robert Hunt to modern day artists Such as Richard D James along with allusions to the great cornish Diaspora and cornish customs such as 'The Baptism for the Dead'. A companion piece will follow exploring the Folklore and Mines that form the the Sub-conscious of Redruth town.