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Jul 9
2 min

Serenity Wall

Re-Imagining William Mitchell's sculptured wall in Hockley Circus under the A41 Hockley Flyover, in Birmingham. I was commissioned earlie...

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Tracey Thorne

Apr 27
5 min

Cave Art in Jamaica: The Language of the Walls

It seems like a lifetime ago and oh how the world has changed but back in January I finally got to explore and see first hand some of Jam...

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Tracey Thorne

Feb 10
1 min

The Fading City Exhibition Launch

The Fading City exhibition opens on 2nd March until 14 March at The Hive gallery, which features new work by Jemma Gunning and Tracey Tho...

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Tracey Thorne

Nov 29, 2019
2 min

More Hand-Painted Jamaica

Two years ago I was standing on Maxfield Avenue in Kingston outside the former Channel One recording studios and as I pushed the button o...

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Tracey Thorne

Oct 31, 2019
2 min

The Fading City exhibition opens on the 2 March

The Fading City 02/03/20 – 14/03/20 A joint exhibition of new work by Jemma Gunning and Tracey Thorne opens on the 2 March 2020 ...

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Tracey Thorne

Oct 3, 2019
4 min

Screenprinting Birmingham's Historic Signs

During the early half of the twentieth-century sign-writing was still a dominant form of sign production which hand-painted brick adverti...

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Tracey Thorne

Aug 29, 2019
3 min

Meeting Jamaica's Painters

In 2018, I travelled to Jamaica to start an evolving documentary photography project called Hand-painted Jamaica which aims to capture th...

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Tracey Thorne

Jun 1, 2019
2 min

Transforming Spaces with artist Lucy McLauchlan

For years I walked past this isolated old 19th Century canal cottage which is just on the edge of Birmingham city centre wondering about w...

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Tracey Thorne

Apr 26, 2019
1 min

Making Dancehall Signs with Sign Painter Jim Kerr

Inspired by the hand-painted Dancehall signs I've photographed in Jamaica working with local sign-painter Jim Kerr we thought we would gi...

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