Metal Liverpool’s artist-in-residence, Bill Posters, discusses Eco-Bot.Net – a new online intervention launched on various social media platforms during the COP26 Climate Talks held in Glasgow, UK, challenging disinformation online […]
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Everywhere in Essex, They Are Building
Tim Burrows is the English PEN x Essex Writers House writer in residence, in partnership with Metal as part of English PEN’s year-long centenary programme Common Currency. ‘Everywhere in Essex, […]
READ MORECollage: The Shifting Model of Publicness
Imagine these two scenes: scene 1, a steam train departed in the 19th century at an inconvenient time slot, carrying workers and other passengers from ‘low classes’ in basic carriages […]
READ MOREFootsteps around Peterborough: A reflection on the first half of my residency with Metal Culture
I knew very little of Peterborough other than it was a quiet city straddling a river on the other side of Cambridgeshire from where I now call home. When I […]
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TIMESLIP – Michael Lacey
For the last few years, I’ve been producing collages that explore the ruins of a dead civilisation – desolate, dilapidated buildings and machinery, littering a coastal landscape of overgrown plants, […]
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My Remote Residency awarded by Metal in February 2021 is to research and further explore the impact of social isolation from the Covid-19 lockdowns, on the mental and physical health […]
READ MOREMaking Art in a Pandemic – Amber Akaunu
In this blog artist and filmmaker Amber Akaunu, one of our recipients of the Remote Residencies programme, reflects on her time during lockdown There’s no doubt that this year has […]
READ MORE‘It Takes A Village…’ by Aisha Zia
My photo journalistic experience led me to a unique approach in making theatre; heavily researched and based on interviews with real people dealing with real issues. Whilst back in Peterborough […]
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