Croydon commission for Open House Festival
We’re currently in the early stages of planning a couple of exciting new commissions in Croydon and Wednesbury. It’s always a joy to reconnect with fantastic individuals and organisations we’ve previously worked with so we were over the moon when Cat Loriggio of Culture Croydon got in touch to ask if we’d like to create a project for the London Open House Festival in September 2026. We first met the lovely Cat when she invited The Caravan Gallery to appear at Winchester Hat Fair in our early days of Caravanning. A subsequent invitation to Croydon for the National Gallery’s Art on Your Doorstep launch in February got us very excited indeed. The place is teeming with the most amazing architecture and there’s such an appetite for culture and creativity. We can’t wait to explore Croydon with our cameras The Caravan Gallery to the Open House Festival in September.
The Great Map of Wednesbury
We’re also thrilled at the prospect of returning to the Black Country to start working on a new commission with the most excellent Multistory who commissioned our Sandwell Pride of Place Project for Blast! Festival in 2019. We’re so grateful to Martin Parr for initially recommending us to Emma Chetcuti at Multistory. Catching up with Emma at Martin’s funeral was a highlight of an otherwise sad and very moving day.
A favourite feature of our Sandwell project was The People’s Map of Sandwell which grew to become an enormously entertaining, revealing and bizarre piece of people-powered cartography. We’re going to be fully focussing on the Sandwell town of Wednesbury this summer and autumn to create a multifaceted photographic and cartographic portrait of the place and its people.
and Scotland…
We can’t get enough of Scotland and are currently spending some time housesitting for friends while we work remotely on projects elsewhere. Needless to say we’re never without our cameras and are exploring the potential for a future project in the Angus Glens and Perth & Kinross area.