Macromancy: Britain and the North East of England, 1985-2022

A book and exhibition project with the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art and, (hopefully), German art publisher, Kerber Verlag scheduled for mid 2021.

This project, encompassing over 3 decades, explores the social political and economic changes that the UK has seen as a result of the neoliberal project that Margaret Thatcher unleashed on coming to power in 1979.

The project has its emphasis on my home region, the North-east of England, which has been hit hard by the social vacuum created with the destruction of the industrial working class and their communities, and how resentment, anger and betrayal weaves a complex web through the narratives of the present.