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Picturing High Streets: Coventry | Tim Mills

Tuesday 30 April – Sunday 3 November 2024 | 10.00am - 5.00pm Show all dates and times

Artist Tim Mills presents photographic outcomes co-created with communities on The Burges.

Drop In | Included with Admission

Artist Tim Mills presents photographic outcomes co-created with communities on The Burges, during his one year Picturing High Streets Residency. The installation at the Coventry Transport Museum is part of the legacy of a multifaceted project.

A third of the shops on the Burges are occupied by fast-food restaurants and takeaways, with bicycle delivery riders forming a significant community of people that provide food courier services throughout the city. Coventry has a distinguished and unique bicycle manufacturing heritage. From the first velocipedes built in 1868, the city went on to become the home of the British cycle industry and at one time produced the greatest output of cycles in the world.

Tim Mills has explored the history of this industry whilst involving the delivery riders on The Burges to produce a contemporary portrait that highlights their lives and work. The project includes stories of migration and of refugees in relation to Coventry’s role as a city of peace, reconciliation and sanctuary, interpreted in the photographs.

The installation that can be seen at Coventry Transport Museum relates to the themes embedded during Tim’s Picturing High Streets Residency: exploring industries that defined the city of the past and those that shape it today; examining ideas of arrivals, departures and transience; and working with an important community of people that provide goods and services in the area.

Tim Mills | Artist Talk

Thursday 24 October | 12.30pm - 3pm

Drop In | FREE

Join artist/curator Tim Mills for a talk and tour of his installation at Coventry Transport Museum.

During 2021/22 and early 2024, Tim was Photographer in Residence in The Burges, Coventry, one of six commissions as part of the national programme Picturing High Streets, with Historic England, Photoworks and GRAIN Projects.

Tim will present his research and practice from the residency, followed by an opportunity to see the installations placed throughout the Museum.

12:30pm -1.30pm: Participant tour of exhibition | 2pm -3pm: Project talk and Q&A in the Starley

Picturing High Streets is a three year project by Historic England and Photoworks to create a contemporary portrait of England’s high streets, part of Historic England’s government-funded High Streets Heritage Action Zone scheme.

GRAIN Projects is the lead regional partner on Picturing High Streets delivering projects in Coventry, Stoke on Trent and Walsall.

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