Travelling Tales

About The Project:

Travelling Tales is a storybook light art project which consists of four large-scale storybooks. Which can be split up or shown together as a complete set of four. The books consist of four spines, one front cover and seven pages of tiles. Or four spines and eight pages of tiles. The tiles are created through workshops within the community to document real and imagined stories from across the area in which they are displayed.

As part of their most recent display in Blyth (October 2025), there were four days of workshops in three different locations to make the tiles, working with over 330 people attending the sessions. In its previous display in County Durham (November 2024 - March 2025, touring first as one book then later as a set of four) there were fourteen days of workshops with eighteen different groups across the community in Durham. 

The concept was originally created after taking part in Light up the North’s Lightlab in 2023. Following this I developed the idea into a maquette with the help of Mick Stephenson, before being commissioned by Durham County Council to create the piece to full scale.