'When Worlds Collide'
Graphite rubbings and charity shop fragments of history around Gorton, 2024, 72.5cm x 102cm
Simon Woolham is an artist, lecturer (University of Huddersfield) and musician (L.A.S.H.) whose primary practice is expanded drawing. He is based at ROGUE ARTISTS' STUDIOS in Manchester and performs the everyday as his alter-ego 'The Frog'. At the core of his practice is the collaborative exploration and encouragement of hidden human details, shared histories, stories associated with belonging and the relationship to specific places and spaces; providing a voice to often unheard vistas of history.