The Greenhouse project - Calum Heywood

Festival Exhibition

Location: TBC

Open: 3rd October - 31st October 2025.

The Greenhouse Project is part of the Nature & Wellbeing service run across the county by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. The project uses activities in nature to promote positive physical & mental health as well as strong communities living in harmony with the natural world. The project took over the previously abandoned Greenhouses in Witton Park in 2021 and has been engaging volunteers in transforming them as a community asset to empower people to grow food and wildlife friendly plants.

Photographed between 2023 and 2025 the project aims to document the strong sense of community present in the Greenhouse through portraits and photographs of space, exploring the change in season, engagement with the space and human interaction

Emily Hulme was born in and is based in North Wales, Emily has been a keen photographer since inheriting her late grandfathers’ analogue cameras – an act that changed the course of her life.

Having left college to pursue a career within the mental health service, she had no qualifications or experience in photography or curation, and took a leap of faith when a vacancy at Oriel Colwyn was advertised on her local notice board.

Working with Oriel Colwyn has given Emily the opportunity to meet and work alongside internationally renowned photographers, and has continuously expanded her ideas on photography – taking inspiration from the work of past exhibitor of the Northern Eye festival, Amanda Jackson, and a previous TalkPhoto speaker Sian Davey, along with many others – Emily’s work has began to blossom into a combination of documentary, portraiture, and spiritually driven photography.

Still an avid analogue based photographer, she prioritises slowing down, connecting with the subject / land, and capturing the depth and meaning behind a moment, inviting the viewer to look deeper within themselves and their shared experiences with others.

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