COMING SOON: AN EXHIBITION BY
DANIEL MEADOWS
Presented by Mid-Pennine Arts and UpCo, Otley
SHUTTLES, STEAM & SOOT
FRIDAY 4 DEC – SUNDAY 20 DEC
Opening event 4 December • All Welcome • 7pm with bar DANIEL MEADOWS IN CONVERSATION
Renowned documentary photographer Daniel Meadows recreates lost early work in a new touring exhibition from Four Corners.
In 1975 Daniel began a two-year post as photographer-in-residence to the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire. He found himself drawn to Bancroft Shed, the last remaining steam powered cotton weaving mill in the district.
He began documenting an industry in decline and the people who worked in it.
'Shuttles, Steam and Soot' was first exhibited in 1978, as part of the Half Moon Photography Workshop’s radical programme of affordable, portable touring shows. Sent around the UK and also abroad, the exhibition was eventually lost.
Fifty years on, Daniel has worked with Four Corners to recreate it. He says: “In the time of Johnny Rotten, James Nutter & Sons in Barnoldswick was like something out of Dickens. Vaporised oil hung in the air like incense. It was a place of unholy clatter with a language all its own: slasher sizing machines, flying mice, left-hand frogs. And busy women in dusty alleys who heard you with their eyes and talked back with their hands. How could I not engage?”
