Our aim is to provide a beautiful space for community connection and artistic expression. We offer a variety of areas to showcase visual and performing art exhibitions. If you’re interested in displaying your work, please contact us.
Now Open in the Sanctuary Room
Mon + Tues: Closed
Wed: 10am-1pm; 2-5pm
Thurs + Fri: 10am-1pm; 2-8pm
Sat + Sun: 10am-1pm; 2-5pm
I first photographed the Gilbert & Bennet Wire Mill factory in 1982 as a journalist would, using a film camera, recording the motion of men and machines at work.
Some 20 years later, I returned to a vacant building, absent of workers, with only shadows and sunlight streaming through broken windows, and dust and rust, and still the faint smell of oil in water. The sounds of wind replaced the whirring of wire spools. The objects left behind formed a new relationship with their surroundings.
These photographs have historical significance to the community, as they document a small slice of life once thriving here, now gone. I took both a photojournalistic and artistic approach to capture a working factory, and later, the remnants of one. I hope this project serves to help bring new life to the site.
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