Black Country Echoes Festival open for business

Photographs by Richard Billingham, Brian Griffin, John Bulmer and Peter Donnelly showing the industrial and cultural heritage of England’s Black Country are on show in Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Light House as part of the Black Country Echoes Festival.

Showing art and writing as well as photography, the festival aims to explore how the Black Country’s industrial past shaped JRR Tolkien’s writing in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery exhibition, and to display the region’s rich photographic history from the 1960s-90s in the Light House show.

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Encompassing 25 venues spread across Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich, Bilston, Sandwell and Dudley, the festival will also include cinema screenings, a classic car show and The Forked Forest Path by Olafur Eliasson – an installation representing the forest cut down to make Mordor.

Black Country Echoes Festival is open from 20 September to 17 January 2015.

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Diane Smyth

Diane Smyth is the editor of BJP, returning for a second stint on staff in 2023 - after 15 years on the team until 2019. As a freelancer, she has written for The Guardian, FT Weekend Magazine, Creative Review, Aperture, FOAM, Aesthetica and Apollo. She has also curated exhibitions for institutions such as The Photographers Gallery and Lianzhou Foto Festival. You can follow her on instagram @dismy