Experimenting with New Ideas

As an artist Jude works with what remains.

A multi-disciplinary artist based in Walsall in the West Midlands, working across analogue film, moving image, and sound. My practice explores the shifting relationship between landscape, industry, and regeneration, focusing on post-industrial environments as active, evolving systems rather than static sites.

In the Black Country, layers of rock, industry, and movement sit just beneath the surface. Quarries fill with water. Canals cut through ground shaped by labour. Vegetation returns, slowly undoing what was forced into place.

The work moves between what is visible and what is sensed, between surface and depth. It resists fixed viewpoints, asking instead for time, for attention.

Experimental Film Work

Using expired film, I allow the image to break down—light leaks, chemical traces, fragments that refuse to settle. These are not errors but evidence. The landscape behaves in the same way: unstable, shifting, unresolved.

Plant Developers

Expirimenting with Sound

Sound enters as vibration. Contact microphones pressed to stone. Hydrophones submerged in canal water. What is recorded is not always heard in the usual sense, but felt—resonance held within material. I am interested in what emerges when we begin to listen.

Alongside this, I acknowledge the voices from the shadows—the lived histories of migration and labour embedded within the landscape. the land holds voices from the shadows—histories of labour, migration, and lived experience that continue to shape the ground beneath our feet.

They do not announce themselves directly, but remain present, embedded, carried.

This new project carries forward the ideas discovered in Exploring Circadian Rhythms and Light, working within the post industrial landscape of the Black Country UNESCO Geo Park.

Jude Hanly