Opening July 16: Between Here and the Rest of the World

Between Here and the Rest of the World
Heiba Lamara, Nathaniel Télémaque, Francesca Telling
Exhibition continues until 15 August
Open Thurs-Sat, 12-5pm or by appointment

Launch 6-8pm, 16 July 2026

Metroland Cultures is pleased to announce Between Here and the Rest of the World an upcoming exhibition opening July 16th with new work from Heiba Lamara, Francesca Telling and Télémaque.

The exhibition is framed by Voices of Places – an ongoing research collaboration between Metroland Cultures and The Open University responding to the work of Doreen Massey (1944–2016). As a radical geographer, feminist, theorist, political activist and long-standing Kilburn resident, Massey developed influential ideas on space, place, and power. Working with selected pedagogical and political resources, this project interprets Massey’s ideas through visual culture to explore themes of displacement, resistance and belonging in London today.

Doreen Massey’s work was deeply interdisciplinary, publicly-orientated and politically-engaged. She collaborated with key figures in politics and visual culture, and co-founded Soundings – a journal – with Stuart Hall and Michael Rustin. In the aftermath of the 2007/8 global financial crisis, Soundings published The Kilburn Manifesto, a collection of essays together seeking to interpret the turbulence of the present and help support the kinds of cultural and political alternatives so urgently needed.

Massey’s significant personal connection to Kilburn, where she lived for many years, profoundly shaped her work. Her reflections on Kilburn High Road and market —behind which Metroland Cultures is based— describe it as a site that cannot be understood “without bringing into play half the world and a considerable amount of British imperialist history”. Her geographical imagination inspired new ways of understanding the uneven relationships between places in a globally-connected world, always attentive to possible openings for social, cultural and political change.

Working directly with geographers at the Open University, this research project will create opportunities for artists, organisers, and local residents to engage with her archive materials and develop new bodies of work in dialogue with Massey, Kilburn and beyond.

*The title of this exhibition is taken from Doreen Massey’s A Global Sense of Place (1991).

Image credit: ‘Travelling Thoughts’ Super 8 scanned to digital. Francesca Telling, 2026

Supported by Antipode Foundation, The Elephant Trust and Becoming Brent Community Fund through National Lottery Heritage Fund and Brent Council with additional support from the Birmingham School of Art.

Bios

Heiba Lamara is an artist-researcher exploring independent print, publishing and archival strategies as a creative practice for social change. She is the Assistant Editor of OOMK Zine and co-founder of Rabbits Road Press, a community-focused Risograph studio in Newham. Her current and on-going work, the Kilburn Print Workshop, in collaboration with Metroland, explores the potential of local independent publishing from Kilburn Market to community centres in Cricklewood. 

Nathaniel Télémaque AKA St.Peso is a North West London-born and raised visual artist, writer and researcher who photographs, films, records and writes about ‘everyday things’ in various urban and natural settings. Bearing witness to mad cities, poetic Caribbean landscapes and maverick livelihoods inspires his audio-visual practices. His lenses focus on the experiences of young Black adults, creative peers and the ordinary moments that make up our day to day lives. He completed his Geography (practice-related) PhD at University College London in 2023 and also works as a Lecturer in Geography and Social Justice at King’s College London University. 

Francesca Telling is an artist and facilitator from London. Working in photography, print, language and time-based media, she is interested in how our knowledges of time and place are produced, between the spaces that care for people and the spaces that care for stories. Her practice centres on the experiences of children and young people within the city and its municipalities, developing through collaborations that use documenting, mapping and interviewing as tools for reimagining the forms of hierarchy found within systems young people navigate.

Geographers at the Open University.Voices of Places started life as a collaborative research initiative among geographers at the Open University working together to keep thinking with the ideas of Doreen Massey. It is co-led by Colin Lorne, a social and political geographer who focuses on the geographies of crisis; Carry van Lieshout, a historical geographer with research interests in women’s working lives with a focus on archives and the stories and silences they contain; and Benjamin Newman, a historical and cultural geographer whose research focuses on the geographies of knowledge and communication. The overarching Massey project has been supported by seed funding from OpenSpace Research Centre, Open University.

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Doreen Massey: Voices of Places

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