Heinrich & Palmer - Data Mining

All Saints Parish Church, Wigan WN1 1NL

20th - 22nd November 2025

5pm - 9:30pm

FREE - NO TICKET REQUIRED

  • Elemental

    Data Mining will take 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.

  • Memory

    The work will mine for traces of memory and identity and seek 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.

  • Deep Time

    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.

Data Mining is both futuristic and ancient at the same time. It is hard to know whether we are going forward or backwards in time. - Leon Palmer 

BIO

We 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.  We are fascinated by the blurring of boundaries between real and virtual space, light, material and architecture. We 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.

Other recent large-scale commissions include the long-listed Aesthetica 2024 Art Prize film Anthro Zoo, which was originally shown in 2022 at the Great North Museum in Newcastle as part of North of the Tyne, Under the Stars event; Once a Desert for Chester Cathedral (2022);  Limelight (2021) commissioned by Trust New Art for Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island; Luminary, created for Crossness Pumping Station in London, commissioned by Peabody in partnership with Crossness Engines Trust (2019); Aerial, a film installation commissioned for The Birds Without Borders exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter and Ship of the Gods, a large scale video projection, light and soundscape event commissioned by Absolutely Cultured as part of Urban Legends: Northern Lights and shown at Hull Minster in 2018.