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From the OHOS Archives:

1991-1993

A5 Flyers mainly designed by Marcus Cole, for a series of talks & presentations at OHOS by the following artists / photographers.

Images 1&2:
David A Bailey

Images 3&4:
Helen Escobedo

Image 5:
David Hevey

Images 6&7:
Chila Kumari Burman
(talk given by Veena Stephenson, due to illness)

Image 8:
Tom Mulligan

Images 9 & 10:
Bipinchandra J Mistry & Santoshni Perera
(Exhibition flyer including an announcement of an informal debate, chaired by Mark Sealy)

Blood, Sweat & Tears

19.6.2026 - 28.6.2026



As part of Open For Art 2026

This year The Engine Room turns 10 on 2.7.2026

To mark this moment, join us to delve deep into our archive—of new work, of process, and of ideas not yet dreamt up. It will be both retrospective and speculative: a space to reflect, and a space to imagine forward.

The programme will unfold across a series of shared experiences. We will hold feasts, we will dance, we will plant seeds in an inch of soil.

Drawing rooms will open as intimate spaces for conversation and collective thinking—places where ideas can be sketched, tested, and held in common.

This is both a reflection and a provocation: an invitation to honour the labour, creativity, and collective energy that have brought us here—and to imagine what comes next.

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From the OHOS Archive…

Rhonda Wilson
‘WORTH PAYING FOR’
1990

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Rhonda Wilson’s project ‘Worth Paying For’ was commissioned by the West Midlands Low Pay Unit and presented at OHOS in 1990 amongst other venues.

Rhonda Wilson built an international reputation for progressive photographic campaigns around low pay and homelessness.

It is worth researching her practice. Seemingly deep rooted in her home city of Birmingham, she supported photographers and artists with a genuine commitment to social issues.

Alongside this project there was a slide talk by Arpana Caur.

And lastly a selection of Video Screenings of ‘Animated Films on Social Issues’ by the Leeds Animation Workshop’. LAW is a women’s collective set up in 1978 to produce and distribute animated films on social issues.
It is still active today.

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Image 1:
A3 poster for ‘Rhonda Wilson: Worth Paying For’, 1990

Image 2:
Hand out and information to:
‘Worth Paying For’
Women and Low Pay in Birmingham.
‘Growing Concerns’ poster work project.
Rhonda Wilson

Images 3-4:
Documentation

Image 5:
Original A3 collage poster design for ‘Arpana Caur: Slide Talk’, 1990.

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