Exhibition Photographs

Sylvia at Burton Brewing Heritage Centre, Tintype. Sylvia had been exploring the project theme of Freedom with the women’s art group who meet regularly at Burton Brewhouse, alongside artist Jennifer Collier.

Jennifer at Burton Brewing Heritage Centre, Tintype. Jennifer had been exploring the project theme of Freedom with the women’s art group who meet regularly at Burton Brewhouse, alongside artist Jennifer Collier.

Hayley at Burton Brewing Heritage Centre, Tintype. Hayley had been exploring the project theme of Freedom with the women’s art group, who meet regularly at Burton Brewhouse alongside artist Jennifer Collier.

Peter and Christine at Burton Brewhouse,Tintype. Peter and Christine attend the Carer’s Cafe at Burton Brewhouse, which often offers a moment of freedom and community support for carers and their loved ones. Artist Jennifer Collier worked with the Carer’s Cafe members to explore memories of Burton’s Brewing Heritage.

Frank at the Royal British Legion, Knowle for Remembrance Sunday. Tintype. Frank, aged 96, joined the army on VE Day and served in the Parachute Regiment, completing 130 jumps in 31 years. In this image he holds a photograph of his regiment in Egypt.

Will at Bedworth Almshouses, Tintype. Will recalled his childhood evacuation from the east end of London and later service in the RAF. Today, he writes poetry for remembrance Sunday, thinking of people who died for our freedom.

Danny at Wolverhampton Arts Centre’s celebration event for Our Freedom: Then and Now. Tintype. Danny dressed as a warden to facilitate the celebration event. This was a test plate made during set-up with new lighting and shows some underexposure and fogging, however this photographic invisibility perhaps serves to highlight some of the untold everyday stories … Continued

Byron at Wolverhampton Arts Centre’s celebration event for Our Freedom: Then and Now. Tintype. Byron, dressing up in an oversized RAF uniform provided by the RAF Museum at Wolverhampton Arts Centre.

Bradley at Wolverhampton Arts Centre’s celebration event for Our Freedom: Then and Now. Tintype. Bradley chose the freedom of representing himself now, rather than dressing up in the costumes provided by the RAF Museum.

Jasmeet and Seerath at Wolverhampton Arts Centre’s celebration event for Our Freedom: Then and Now. Tintype. Jasmeet and Seerath, sisters dressing up in an oversized RAF uniform provided by the RAF Museum at Wolverhampton Arts Centre.

Harry at Wolverhampton Arts Centre’s celebration event for Our Freedom: Then and Now. Tintype. Harry, dressing up in an oversized RAF uniform provided by the RAF Museum at Wolverhampton Arts Centre.

Zine making participants, l-r Ann, Joy, Lynn, Awen, artist Heidi Pendergrast and Lynda at St Mary’s Church, Atherstone. Tintype. Ladies involved in making a zine about freedom who had gathered to celebrate the project with a cream tea and vintage-style singer.

Freedom by Heidi (top) and Riley (bottom) made at Lillington Youth Club with Jo Gane. Cyanotype.

Celebration event at St Mary’s Church, Atherstone, Tintype. Front, centre artist Heidi Pendergrast with members of the community who had gathered to celebrate the launch of a zine created for the project with a cream tea.

Wendy at Bedworth Almshouses, Tintype. Wendy was a child in Bedworth during WW2 and shared memories of her family life during air raids in the local area.

Sam, in front of ‘A Boat called Freedom’, by Matilda (aged 7) Lighthouse Arts Centre, 2025. The project at Lighthouse Arts Centre involved many writing workshops with community groups. These words were then woven through a willow framed boat by artist Heidi Steller.

Carole Evans: Spirit of Freedom. Knit and Natter group at Newton Abbott Library, Libraries Unlimited. The Knit and Natter group recreate the war memorial of their town of Newton Abbott; one of only three in the country which features a woman at the top. The woman represents Freedom, and is depicted breaking the chains that … Continued

Creative Freedom. The Flying Fish Artists, Barnstaple Library, Libraries Unlimited. The Flying Fish Artists are members of a unique local charity which aims to enhance and promote the mental health of people in the Devon area through art and creativity. Meeting regularly at Barnstaple Library, here they show the paintings they’ve made in response to … Continued

Freedom Portraits, shot in From and To by Laura Eldret, Bridport Arts Centre, 2025.

Freedom Portraits, shot in From and To by Laura Eldret, Bridport Arts Centre, 2025.

Freedom Portraits, shot in From and To by Laura Eldret, Bridport Arts Centre, 2025.

Image by Audrey Albert with Bredbury Library, Stockport.

We created a relaxing space where image makers could engage with the sunprinting / cyanotype making process, have a hot drink, write about what freedom means to them or draw it.

Using only foliage, flowers and greeneries from the library’s community garden, image makers took us on delicate fluttering wings of butterflies to the depths of the ocean tangled between corals.

Heidi, in front of ‘Freedom Sails’ by Mayra (aged 10) Lighthouse Arts Centre, 2025.

Jacob, Young Writers Group, Lighthouse Arts Centre, 2025. I photographed the group of Young Writers, who wrote their poems and words in response to Freedom on my paper backdrop before we took the photographs. I then photographed at the launch of the boat, using some of the words that had been created during the workshops … Continued

Jasmine, Young Writers Group, Lighthouse Arts Centre, 2025.

What does Freedom mean to you? Throughout summer 2025, The Met worked closely with community partners ADAB, The Proud Trust FROGS and Eagles Wing Refugees group to interrogate this very question, inspired by the 80th Anniversary of VE and VJ Day this year. This culminated in a sharing event of three new pieces of music … Continued

By The Light of Our Losses is a brand new art installation by award winning art studio idontloveyouanymore. The artwork collects real losses from real people, handwriting each individual loss as an individual light bulb. The artwork acts as an evolving elegy, a memorial to honor personal absences. Every loss you see here at Light … Continued

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Timothy Their reflections — shaped by personal, local, and global contexts — were both insightful and profound, prompting consideration of the fragile balance between freedom and peace, and what our collective future may hold.

Anna All of the participants were born after the Good Friday Agreement, which marked the beginning of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Hearing their perspectives on what ‘freedom’ means to them was therefore particularly compelling.

Lucy Both workshops focused on capturing the theme of ‘freedom’ and took place in the former Strand Spinning Mill in East Belfast: a unique, unchanged industrial space which overlooks the city and survived the Belfast Blitz, despite extensive damage in its locality.

Beth The young people in these photographs participated in film-making or photography workshops facilitated by the Strand Arts Centre, Belfast. Both workshops focused on capturing the theme of ‘freedom’ and took place in the former Strand Spinning Mill in East Belfast: a unique, unchanged industrial space which overlooks the city and survived the Belfast Blitz, … Continued

Bruno, Young Writers Group, Lighthouse Arts Centre, 2025

Solidarity Plaza commemorates the more than 500 people killed in the Clydebank Blitz in 1941. The stitched border of poppies is a symbol of peace, resilience, remembrance and overcoming across many cultures. Tatreez is traditional Palestinian embroidery and the motif is designed by Tatreez studio.

‘Freedom Road’ Author Simon Lamb, who worked with the children of Sacred Heart Primary to write ‘Oor Freedom Song’, walking along the harbour wall in Girvan.

‘Simon and Birds, Girvan Harbour’ Author Simon Lamb, who worked with the children of Sacred Heart Primary to write ‘Oor Freedom Song’.

‘Ritchie and Lorna, Giving the Past a Future’ Founders of Girvan and District Great War Project, Ritchie and Lorna Conaghan research the lost stories of soldiers and commemorate them.

‘PAX’, Photograph by Anneleen Lindsay. Debbie, founding member of Mothers Against Genocide, photographed in the ‘Our Freedom’ immersive exhibition at Motherwell Library.