The Builders Of The Barbican
2022
Work shown in The Age of Many Posts, Barbican Conservatory, 2022. Curated by Abbas Zahedi.
Working with the Barbican Archive team, I wanted to bring the builders of the Barbican back to the site. Turning archive imagery into a fairy tale.
I was at my grandad’s last summer and he told me about the building of the Barbican Estate. It began in 1963 and during its construction, the site workers repeatedly went out on strike, fighting for greater protection of wages, and health and safety standards. His stories still sound like fairy tales to me.
