Nick visits Blackburn to meet co-founder and co-director of the National Festival of Making, Elena Jackson, and to see two of this year's festival commissions - Breathing Colour by textile artist and designer Margo Selby, and Invisible Hands by ceramic artist Nehal Aamir.

".....we reached out to the manufacturing sector and said would you allow us to place artist in residence in your factories and while they’re there we want them to explore your products your processes your materials your community and your history. And through the lens of that artist's practice to tell a story about you as a maker that we then present back to our festival audiences through the creation of completely original artworks that are made between artist and factory."

Elena Jackson

Interview by | Nick Ahad
July 2024