Selby Light 2026

Find out more about imitating the dog’s Homeward installation and Jazmin Morris’s ‘Through the Liquid Crystal Display’ below. 

Click here for Audio Description

Full Audio Description of the installation on the outside of the building is available at the link above.

Please check each of the Homeward participant pages for Audio Description of each individual character and story. There is also Audio Description available for St. Germain and Jazmin Morris.

Homeward

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. Click on the names to discover their story. Audio Description available for all.

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.

Jazmin Morris – Through the Liquid Crystal Display 

For this brand new work, Jazmin will present a series of visual code illustrations inspired by the architecture of Selby Abbey and the stories of vibrant local community members. Through this series, Jazmin positions creative coding as a contemporary approach to traditional stained glass techniques. The iconography of stained glass has been used for centuries to tell stories and document history. Here, the artist transforms this traditional approach, presenting a view into a new place of reflection.

CLICK HERE to discover, edit and expand ‘Through the Liquid Crystal Display’. Read more about the inspiration behind each of the works in the series and take a piece of the art ‘Homeward’ with you…

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Homeward Credit

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

Through the Liquid Crystal Display Credit

Commissioned by Now Then! and Mediale-celebrating one of the region’s most exciting artists to emerge in recent years. Produced by Mediale based on the stories of the diverse communities of Selby gathered in the making of Homeward, by imitating the dog. Made possible and free thanks to funding from Arts Council England, UKSPF, and North Yorkshire Council.