Vibrations of Resilience (5 May – 27 June 2026)
05 Jun 2026Created by multi disciplinary artist Jude Hanly.
Jude works with what remains.
In the Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark, layers of rock, industry, and movement sit just beneath the surface. Quarries fill with water. Canals cut through ground shaped by labour. Vegetation returns, slowly undoing what was forced into place, excavation of the ground.
Using expired 16mm film, hand processed. I allow the image to break down—light leaks, chemical traces, stains, fragments that refuse to settle. These are not errors but evidence. The landscape behaves in the same way: unstable, shifting, unresolved.
Sound enters as vibration. Contact microphones pressed to stone. Hydrophones submerged in canal water. What is recorded is not always heard in the usual sense, but felt—resonance held within material.
The work moves between what is visible and what is sensed, between surface and depth. It resists fixed viewpoints, asking instead for time, for attention. Light and the natural circadian rhythm plays with the translucent suspended surfaces.
This is not an empty landscape.
It holds voices from the shadows—histories of labour, migration, and lived experience that continue to shape the ground beneath our feet. They do not announce themselves directly, but remain present, embedded, carried.
I am interested in what emerges when we begin to look and listen.
This work was made possible by DYCP Arts Council Funding.
