Lucy Harrison - Trellis

No Smell, No Dirt, No Trouble

This film explores the partnership built between the artist Lucy Harrison and Efstathia Kostopoulou, a PhD researcher at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Their project No Smell, No Dirt, No Trouble investigated the past industrial history of the Park and explored how this can be made more visible in the present. Using archive research and oral history interviews they mapped the site and the history of the industries that were previously there, focussing on liquids (oil, paint, perfume, and syrups) and using the waterways as a navigation. They investigated the materials and processes themselves as well as the memories of those who experienced them.

Commissioned as part of the UCL Trellis project. Trellis was a public art and community engagement project which partnered researchers from UCL with artists local to, or connected to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where UCL will be opening a new campus, UCL East, in 2023.

Trellis was conceived by Sam Wilkinson, Head of Public Art at UCL, Lizzy Baddeley, UCL East Community and Engagement Manager and Curator Rosie Murdoch.