Horrocks, Centenary Mill

This series draws upon the interior spaces of Horrocks’ Centenary Mill (1891) in Preston, captured during a transitional moment—when the building stood vacant, suspended between its industrial past and its future as residential housing.

Through a lens of quiet observation, these works investigate notions of identity, place, and cultural memory. The mill, once a monument to industrial labour and working-class ambition, becomes a site of reflection on the shifting conditions of the contemporary urban landscape. Here, the architecture serves as both witness and relic—its transformation emblematic of broader socio-economic changes and the erasure or repurposing of collective histories.

These sleeping giants of the industrial era are reawakened only through the hand of development—or else consigned to oblivion. The visual language of the series draws inspiration from William Blake’s Jerusalem, evoking the tension between utopian vision and post-industrial reality.

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Paintings Oil on Canvas , 150x100cm & 100x80cm

Drawings Charcoal and Conte on Paper 60x40cm

Etchings 20x13cm