Invited to explore the ‘Fabricating Histories’ Exhibition by the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne. I created a series of works in reaction to inspire visitors to the museum to work on their own inventions ideas, extending a proud North East heritage.

The work culminated in a weekend of ‘Gigantic Cardboard Inventing’ held in the museums aptly named Great Hall.

“The story of our 19th century inventors and pioneers is all around us, but with so many experiments, ideas and notions jostling for position, history could have lurched off on a tangent at any moment and become very different.

What if Brunel had graced Sunderland with a vast suspension bridge, or Lovelace & Babbage had computerised the 1840s? What if steam-powered airships had really taken off?​

From the northern engineers behind the age of steam to the New Victorians, Fabricating Histories turns history on its head and takes a closer look at the raggedy edges, broken ends, loops and knots, the alternative threads of history that might have been.”