Lou Hazelwood & Chris Graham
Trade Routes and Trauma Sites

Opening Night
23rd July 2021 | 5:30-9:30pm

‘Trade Routes and Trauma Sites (Colonial Migrants and Colonial Residents)’ is the second part in an ongoing collaboration between Hull based artist Lou Hazelwood and Chris Graham, based in Chesterfield.

Through a shared interest in current and historical political systems, they are producing an evolving body of work that mirrors the ever changing political climate, creating discourse around the subject of culture as it relates to politics.

The 20th Century Disneyfication of colonial attitudes and empire building has created a warped sense of history that the 21st Century seeks to bring back in line with reality. Here, their work fuses the two aspects of history: reality and un-reality and picks apart global history, bringing other(ed) voices back into the conversation.

We are open all of the following times, booking is not necessary but if you wish to do so you can BOOK HERE

Exhibition Remains Open

Sunday 25th July | 10am - 12pm
Thursday 29th July | 11am - 2pm
Sunday 1st August | 10am - 12pm
Thursday 12th August | 11am - 2pm
Sunday 15th August | 2pm - 4pm
Thursday 19th August | 11am - 2pm

And by appointment at other times

About Lou Hazelwood

Lou Hazelwood (b. 1971) originally from Leeds is an artist based in Hull since 1991. She has many years experience of exhibiting both regionally (Hull, Lincolnshire, Leeds, Sheffield), nationally (London, Bath, Blackburn, Cambridge) and internationally (Romania, South Korea, USA, The Netherlands, Portugal) and her work takes many forms and responses from sound pieces, text, film, installation, performance and image based. She is interested in layered imagery of text, image and sound, creating palimpsests for the viewer to navigate. She investigates how our experiences, personal and cultural, and technologies, historical and contemporary, influence our experience of memory and forgetfulness. During 2017 she was the Creative Director for RED Contemporary Arts ‘REDboard’ project and has been on the committee of RED for several years. She actively curates projects and exhibitions as collaborative research with fellow artists and practitioners. .