WITHOUT THE RIVER THERE IS NO MILL
WITHOUT THE MILL, THE RIVER STILL
Created in collaboration with Leeds Industrial Museum’s volunteer gardeners from Hyde Park Source – an organisation dedicated to improving health and wellbeing through improving the environment.
Tasked with creating a mural to be pasted up on the new flood defence wall at the museum, the participants reflected through creative writing on what happens when human industrial endeavour comes head-to-head with the natural world as changed by human activity.
The phrase they created reflects industry’s dependence on nature, and asks what the natural world might be without – or after – us.
The participants were then invited to the People Powered Press workshop in Shipley, to help handprint the letters which make up this mural for outdoor exhibition at Leeds Industrial Museum from October 2024.
The letterforms in this mural used an expanded version of an original alphabet created using Brico by local designer, typographer and friend of the Press, Adam Greasley.
