Audio Description

Here is Audio Description for the installation on the outside of the Abbey.

Audio Description is also available for each of the installation pieces inside, available via the names and links below.

What is Homeward all about?

Homeward is a brand-new installation celebrating Selby’s different stories and the unified feeling of finding home.

Homeward reimagines the stories of the diverse communities of Selby to tell a huge human tale of imagination, belief and personal history that begins with one very simple question: How Did You Get Here?

Featuring characters designed and inspired by local residents, this joyous story is spectacularly projected onto the front of the 955-year-old Selby Abbey. Visitors are invite to continue inside for a breath-taking walkthrough, where these characters come to life in unexpected and imaginative ways, soundtracked by an original music score. 

Below is a link to each participant’s story. Each contains the narrative or idea behind each of the characters in the installation, as well as the character design sketches and inspiration collages. These items evolved out of workshops with imitating the dog and show the journey from personal story to imaginative rendering to what you see in the installation.

Find out more below.

Created and performed by

• Sue Leung
• Jayne Miles
• Chris Wilson
• Maxine Murphy
• Maggie Jackson
• Nicola Simpson
• Tracy Wilson
• Jinette Watmough
• Alyssa Fithian-Franks
• Anonymous
• Leah Gash
• Jo Scott
• Carter Butler
• Claire Coupland
• Ella Coupland
• Sadie Read
• Nancy Faeser

There is also an installation in the window featuring St. Germain, the Patron Saint of the Abbey and the inspiration behind the beginnings of Selby Abbey.

Audio Description is available for all installations via the links above.

Homeward

Commissioned by Now Then! and co-produced with Mediale
Concept, creation and realisation by imitating the dog
Made possible and free thanks to funding from Arts Council England, UKSPF and North Yorkshire Council