Data Mining takes a creative and elemental journey through the industrial and geological heritage of Wigan and Leigh as the area makes a transition towards a greener future. The work mines for traces of memory and identity and seeks out poignant moments enmeshed in the fabric of objects and places.

Data Mining takes the idea of a subterranean world of memories connected to a re-wilding surface. A place where deep time, captured in the geology of an area perforated with mine shafts and underground galleries, combines with a parallel world of scanned and virtual copies.

Heinrich & Palmer have worked together as an artist partnership since the early 1990s creating multi-media installations and interventions in response to a wide range of sites.  They are fascinated by the blurring of boundaries between real and virtual space, light, material and architecture. They use projection, light, illusion, interactivity and sound to create immersive installations to explore the processes behind the world of appearances and facades and to reveal hidden narratives or create ambiguous meanings.

Recent work includes In Visible Light commissioned by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for Meadowland at Wakehurst, Winds of Change a special commission for Spectra Light Festival 2024 which has now become part of Aberdeen Art Gallery’s permanent collection and Entry – a commission for the b-side multimedia festival 2023 which was developed in response to Brandy Row – a row of derelict Tudor Cottages.