Exhibition
Andrew Black: ‘On Clogger Lane’
19 Jan 2024 – 10 Mar 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 16:00
Free admission
Address
- Waterlow Park Centre
- Dartmouth Park Hill
- London
England - N19 5JF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 143, 210, 271 (Waterlow Park Lauderdale House from Archway / Highgate Hill Hornsey Lane towards Archway) W5 (Cromwell Avenue) 214 (Ponds Square, then access Waterlow Park through Upper Swains Lane Gate) 4, C11 (Magdala Avenue, then walk up Dartmouth Park Hill)
- Archway station (Northern Line) is a 10 minute walk away (via Highgate Hill)
- Trains: Upper Holloway station is a 15 minute walk away
LUX is pleased to present the first London solo exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Andrew Black featuring his new Margaret Tait Award 2021 film, presented in collaboration with LUX Scotland.
About
‘On Clogger Lane’ is a new experimental documentary by Andrew Black. The film meanders through the Washburn Valley between Otley and Harrogate, exploring the infrastructures of capital on land overshadowed by a monstrous satellite surveillance station, submerged beneath reservoirs, haunted by accusations of witchcraft, and populated by the traces of many generations of past inhabitants – from prehistoric carvings to the Victorian graves of child labourers.
Incorporating conversations with farmers, antiquarians, dowsers, grandmothers, Quakers, landowners and communists alongside an improvisational score, ‘On Clogger Lane’ explores the meeting points of passivity and protest, public and private, past and present, all coincident in the same patch of ancient land.
This film features newly-recorded conversations with Sylvia Boyes, Anne Lee and Lindis Percy—local women who have been involved in opposing the activities of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Menwith Hill site (near Harrogate, North Yorkshire), as well as British and US imperialism more widely in different capacities over decades. Further contributors are local people whose connections to the Washburn Valley tell complex and interlinked stories of industrial exploitation, social history and folklore: Sally Robinson at the Washburn Heritage Centre; farmer and author Stephanie Shields; local historian Tom Cox; quarry site manager Richard Green and Black’s uncle Barrie Jackson. These oral histories are accompanied by an experimental score, including music by Leeds improvisational band Vibracathedral Orchestra and archival sound and film from the Yorkshire Film Archive.
Presented by LUX and LUX Scotland.
The Margaret Tait Award is a LUX Scotland commission delivered in partnership with Glasgow Film, with support from Creative Scotland.
Andrew Black was born in Leeds and has lived in Glasgow since 2009. He was on the committee of Transmission gallery in 2016 and 2017, and in 2018 took part in the Experimental Film & Moving Image Residency at Cove Park, and the Autumn Residency at Hospitalfield. He recently completed a commission with Atlas Arts as part of the Plural Futures Community Film project on the Isle of Skye, exhibited with Aman Sandhu as part of Glasgow International Festival in June 2021. Black’s work was recently exhibited at Centre Clark, Montreal as part of The Magic Roundabout and the Naked Man with Aman Sandhu. He is the recipient of the Margaret Tait Award 2021, a LUX Scotland commission delivered in partnership with Glasgow Film, supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.