LVE
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A project about a community.
A project by the community. A project for the community. |
The work was inspired by motherhood.
By a sudden relationship with a place. By a realisation that this place will always be significant within a family history. |
LVE zine | campaigners
The work was collated in a digitally-printed zine that was distributed in local community centres, businesses and cafes; Levenshulme is in the poorest ward in Manchester and internet access is not a given - the work needed to be accessible to all members of the community.
LVE zine | shopkeepers
zine 2 was funded through a council grant and partially self-funded. A double-sided concertina publication, representing the length of Levenshulme high street, it focused on a range of shopkeepers along the A6.
self made gallery | manchester
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Levenshulme
Levenshulme is a place of contradictions and contrasts: a community of middle class and working class residents; a mixture of many ethnicities, incorporating Polish, Irish, Romanian and Asian communities; a bohemian and arty suburb, with much poverty, yet one in which residents take an interest in making improvements. The residents view the area as being forgotten by the council – not poor enough to warrant the most urgent attention, yet not prosperous enough to lift itself out of the degeneration that occurs. The high street is an excellent example of this; a once-thriving commercial area that is now over-run with takeaways, pound shops and independent retailers struggling to survive.
Levenshulme is a microcosm of the political and aesthetic aspects of Manchester.
Levenshulme is home.
Levenshulme is a place of contradictions and contrasts: a community of middle class and working class residents; a mixture of many ethnicities, incorporating Polish, Irish, Romanian and Asian communities; a bohemian and arty suburb, with much poverty, yet one in which residents take an interest in making improvements. The residents view the area as being forgotten by the council – not poor enough to warrant the most urgent attention, yet not prosperous enough to lift itself out of the degeneration that occurs. The high street is an excellent example of this; a once-thriving commercial area that is now over-run with takeaways, pound shops and independent retailers struggling to survive.
Levenshulme is a microcosm of the political and aesthetic aspects of Manchester.
Levenshulme is home.
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destroyed images representing the destruction of the high street
