WORK Records explores the holdings of three heritage collections – Derbyshire Record Office, Corby Heritage Centre and John Smedley Archive.
Working with curators, historians, artists, current and former workers and volunteers, artists Kate Anderson, Kim Noce, and Saul Pankhurst, have made short animated films about working lives at three family firms: John Smedley at Lea Mills, packaging firm Robinson and Sons in Chesterfield, and steel manufacturer Stewarts & Lloyd Ltd in Corby.
We’ll see the films and find out more about this innovative collaboration between contemporary art and heritage.
WORK Records is produced by Derby based Animate Projects, working with heritage collections, Junction Arts in Chesterfield and Fermynwoods Contemporary Art in Northamptonshire, the history team at the University of Derby, and Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
WORK Records is made possible with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players, and is also supported by Arts Council England.
Photograph: workers at the John Smedley knitting factory in Lea Bridge, Derbyshire, 1927, courtesy John Smedley Archive Charitable Trust
