Visions and Voices
23 September 2006 – 13 January 2007

Visions and Voices is an atmospheric installation by Lorraine Berry that explores the theme of childhood past and present. Lorraine encourages you to get involved in the installation by activating childhood sounds and images. Use a UV scanner to make hidden images appear within seemingly empty frames and trigger shadows to hear voices from the past and present.

Visions and Voices takes inspiration from past childhood experiences charted in Gallery Oldham’s Oral History Collection. The exhibition uses digitally altered images from both the Gallery’s collection and Oldham Local Studies and Archives.

To look at childhood today, Lorraine worked with pupils from Grange and Our Lady’s Schools in Oldham, creating a website where the two schools could share ideas.

The exhibition includes a study area where you can find our more about the lives of Oldham children past and present. It contains an archive of oral history interviews along with books and transcripts of the thoughts of children today taken from Lorraine’s website.

This exhibition is supported by Folly.