Homing was a sound art work created by artists Jen Southern and Sam Thulin with the Media Innovation Studio at the University of Central Lancashire. The experience, accessed through headphones, began at the Roll of Honour in the Harris [...]

May 2016 Artist Lauren Velvick talks about her research for The Expanded City project. Maps of the outskirts of Preston, and many similar towns I’m sure, exhibit little in the way of landmarks to latch on to when planning [...]

March 2016 Artist Jen Southern describes her visit to The Somme, as part of her research for the Homing project. At the beginning of March, Sam Thulin and I went to France to make sound recordings and collect GPS [...]

March 2016 Lauren Velvick introduces The Expanded City project. How to encompass a city, and which boundary line, image, or description is the truest? These have emerged as pertinent questions during an initial meeting between the four artists who [...]

July 2015 Artist and UCLan Fine Art MA student, Tracy Hill reflects on her experience of the Nordic Geographers Conference in Estonia. Imagining wetlands: geography between wet and dry bought together 11 individuals from 6 countries all presenting personal [...]

'Subplots to a City: Ten Years of In Certain Places' explores how In Certain Places has developed new approaches to art, culture and urban development since its inception in 2003. Alongside images, project outlines and [...]