Art project to celebrate town's unsung 'royalty'

AN exhibition is planned which will highlight a town's working class “royalty”.

- TONY HENDERSON

The project is inspired by the annual crowning in Berwick of the Tweed Salmon Queen.

Local community groups and representatives from Berwick's industries are invited to participate in the project by artist Lucy Wright.

Funded by Create Berwick and delivered by Lucy and contemporary arts agency Arts&Heritage, the exhibition will honour Berwick's working-class heritage by crowning Kings and Queens of industry.

A series of photographs - which will go on display during next year's Berwick (Tweedmouth) Feast & Salmon Queen festival - will capture the “coronations” of locals and celebrate the role they play in modern Berwick life.

Nominations are invited for which industries, communities and landscapes should be featured in the exhibition.

Lucy said: “There is a long tradition of crowning people at events that commemorate sectors of industry - from the Salmon Queen in Tweedmouth, the Coal Queen at miners’ galas, and the Cotton Queens of the 1930s.