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Cultured Ground
Robida 9: Soil, 2023
printed, 200 x 297mm

An essay on the urban and social infrastructures that were made and consequently exploited by the mining industry in the UK West Midlands from the 18th century onwards. The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands whose name was officiated in 1987 to cover the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Historically, the area had no single set of clear boundaries. Instead, it formed through social, geographical and industrial parameters which were, for the most part, shaped by the Industrial Revolution. 

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