People’s Archive

The People’s Archive explores the past and present experiences of those who have worked in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. In October and November 2019, new portraits by Andy Pilsbury and Inès Elsa Dalal were exhibited alongside oral history interviews at Iron House Gallery as part of the 'Still: Stories from the Jewellery Quarter'. Explore them here:

Exhibition

Still: Stories from the Jewellery Quarter

Still: Stories from the Jewellery Quarter was an exhibition commissioned by JQ Townscape Heritage Project, displaying work from the People’s Archive at Iron House Gallery from 26 October – 10 November 2019. Andy Pilsbury and Inès Elsa Dalal displayed recent work capturing people who have recent and existing connections to the Quarter. Their photos were displayed alongside the work of Janine Wiedel who documented the workshops and craftspeople of Turner & Simpson silversmiths on Legge Lane, in 1977.