Join us for an afternoon gathering, inspired by The Portland Global Friendship Group.
WAYMARKERS showcases hundreds of personal glass prints made in The SIM Project workshops by people with roots in over 40 countries. The project uses the SIM card as a symbol of connection and a creative tool to bring people with different experiences of mobility together. On display for the first time is an elaborate jewellery piece inspired by The Portland Global Friendship Group and the international trade of Portland stone.
Project team : Liz Hingley, Egemen Kizilcan, Frank Menger, Sofie Boons.
Programme on the 20th June:
3 pm – Tour of The Curiosity Cabinet exhibition
@ 171 The Strand, London, WC2R
3:45-5 pm – Activities and refreshments
@ Exchange, Bush House North East Wing, Aldwych , WC2B 4BG
Free but please register HERE.
Liz Hingley is an artist and anthropologist. Her interdisciplinary practice is informed by growing up in Birmingham, a UK city home to over 180 nationalities, and living across Europe and China. Blending photography, sculpture and curation with a lot of conversation and exchange, Liz seeks to illuminate systems and technologies of belonging and belief that connect people around the world. In the process she has authored five books.
Liz founded The SIM Project in 2017 and has toured it to 8 countries. The growing collection of unique wearable artefacts made by participants in intimate workshops, materialise and value stories of mobility and belonging through personal digital archives. The project was selected by London Design Festival 2024 and exhibited at V&A, London. Liz is currently Honorary Artist at Migration Mobilities Bristol and a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar on the Programme for Interdisciplinary Resilience Studies. She has also held positions at Kings College London (Digital Humanities), The Migration Research Centre, University College London, SOAS University (South Asia Institute) and the University of Austin, Texas (Art History). Between 2013 and 2017 she lived in China as a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
Event produced in collaboration with King’s College London.
