Lewisham: About Face by EVEWRIGHT – audio and video

“This installation is my own unique perspective on growing up in Lewisham as the child of parents from the Windrush generation, reflecting on the places and the forgotten heroes of Lewisham’s past and present that have shaped my life.

In the audio clips below, I share my memories of family and growing up in Lewisham, my ideas behind the installation, some of the people and places it features and the key themes it explores. You can also listen to an audio interview with my mother, Clarice Reid, and watch a documentary directed by Helena Appio about Mr. Pink, a resident of Lewisham, and the house he loved.”

– EVEWRIGHT

An interview with EVEWRIGHT
Clarice Reid audio
A Portrait of Mr Pink – video
Images
Find out more about the installation

An interview with EVEWRIGHT

1. Intro

Migration Museum · Intro – EVEWRIGHT (Lewisham: About Face)

2. Beginnings

Migration Museum · Beginnings – EVEWRIGHT (Lewisham: About Face)

3. Family

Migration Museum · Family – EVEWRIGHT (Lewisham: About Face)

4. Lewisham – Growing Up

Migration Museum · Lewisham: Growing Up – EVEWRIGHT (Lewisham: About Face)

Clarice Reid audio

Essex Record Office · Interview with Clarice Reid about moving to England from Jamaica, 15 April 2019 (SA 69/1/13/1)

A Portrait of Mr Pink – video

Produced and Directed by Helena Appio

Images

Remember Mr Pink – EVEWRIGHT

© EVEWRIGHT. All rights reserved 2023

‘Maxi Priest’ on Trevor Collyard Black-owned local building and business – EVEWRIGHT

© EVEWRIGHT. All rights reserved 2023

Audio

Departures podcast: 400 years of emigration from Britain
Departures is a new podcast from the Migration Museum exploring 400 years of emigration from Britain. Read more
Departures podcast episode 2 – Maidens’ Voyage
In the early 17th century shiploads of young women were despatched to America by the Virginia Company of London. It was hoped they would marry the English planters in Jamestown and help grow the new colony. But who were these young women prepared to travel thousands of miles across the ocean in search of a husband? And how did they fare? Mukti Jain Campion talks to Jennifer Potter, author of The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World. Read more
Departures podcast episode 3 – The Company Men in India
From the beginning of the 17th century when the first ships of the English East India Company set sail from London, tens of thousands of men from Britain ventured out to live an expat life in a country that was completely different to anything they had previously known. Most never returned. Mukti Jain Campion speaks to historians William Dalrymple, Professor Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Dr Kate Teltscher and to Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, to find out more about the Company men who went to India and how their actions brought profound change for both Britain and India. Read more

Video

Welcome back to the Migration Museum
Contemporary artist STIK has made a video for us to celebrate our reopening, featuring amazing drone footage of WALL and our current exhibitions. Read more
Jewish Museum Object Talk – Dunera
Our Head of Learning and Partnerships Emily Miller introduces the Dunera display from our Departures exhibition, as part of the Jewish Museum’s Passover Object Series of talks. Read more
Moving Stories: Lewisham – a creative competition for young people aged 9-18
Over the past year, young people from across Lewisham have been designing exhibits responding to what migration means to them as part of Moving Stories: Lewisham, a creative competition we ran during Borough of Culture, supported by Landsec. This video tells the story of the competition, featuring interviews with the six shortlisted teams and footage of the finals event. Read more

Publications

Migration and Museums – a review for the Migration Network 2020/21
The Migration Museum commissioned a review to provide an overview of migration-related work being undertaken by museums and heritage sites nationally, to explore some of the motivations for the museum sector to address migration and the challenges faced in doing so, and to provide an initial basis and context for participants in the Migration Network 2020/21 to explore further. Read more
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Migration has a major impact on local communities. In a series of videos produced as part of Migration Making Places, Making People: New Narratives of Inclusion, a partnership project between COMPAS, The Open University, the Migration Museum Project and Counterpoints Arts, key policymakers, researchers and practitioners discuss issues ranging from solidarity to challenges migrants face and… Read more
Migration Museum Project 2017/18 brochure
This brochure outlines our plans to create a permanent Migration Museum for Britain, our current and past activities and our achievements to date. Read more