Between Within
This exhibition features work from four of the eight Ebor Associate Members. Associate Members are artists who are a part of the community at Ebor but don’t take permanent studio residence in the building. We in the exhibition are Burning Salt (Hannah Hull), Matt Temperley, Ellie Waters and Maryanne Royle. 

Through conversation we discovered the connections between our work and found that the words “between” and “within” resonated with each artist. Treasures in the everyday, being caught within two internal states, the inner body and connections between bodies, layering landscapes, the deeply personal and the universal.

This collaborative conversation continues through our work sharing space; photography facing painting, sound overlaying video, projection alongside installation.

Burning Salt (Hannah Hull) 

This mural - and the accompanying music video - uses motifs accessed via somatic meditation. I use a technique called 

‘focusing’ to connect me with my internal world and access these visualisations. These move between the deeply personal and the universal. Words, poetry and melodies can also be found within this space.

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Burning Salt is an interdisciplinary project by Hannah ‘Hunter’ Hull (they/them). 

The ancient practice of ‘burning salt’ is an act of expulsion, purification or protection. Hull uses song, poetry, drawing, photography and film to these ends.

Hannah studied fine art at Goldsmiths and is a self-taught musician. They are currently creating an artist-to-artist performance space for womxn and LGBTQIA+ musicians called The Muxic Circle. 

Ellie Waters

An ongoing project formed from two archives, my grandfather’s - M J Burgess - photographic collection of Rochdale in the 1980’s, and my own investigation of this space now.

Having grown up in Rochdale and after many years overseas, I have returned at a prominent time in the town’s history. With various regeneration projects planned and underway, Rochdale’s town centre is changing.  

Central to this urban landscape are the College Bank flats, seven high-rise social housing buildings known locally as ‘The Seven Sisters’. In 2017, landlords and owners Rochdale Boroughwide Housing released provisional plans to demolish four, if not all of the College Bank buildings, altering the Rochdale skyline and displacing hundreds of residents.  

Between my grandfather’s archive and that of my own, I investigate the social and historical landscape of the College Bank area. Layering these landscapes, at times quite literally, seen here with my frame sitting within that of my grandfather’s.  

My lens focuses on Sylvia, watching as she watches from her kitchen window in the Tentercroft building of the College Bank flats, a home which she has lived in for over forty years. My grandfathers, a slide, colour photograph taken over forty years earlier. We stand as he stands on the edge of the pavement on Norman Road, Rochdale, looking down towards six of the College Bank buildings, Mitchell Hey, Dunkirk Rise, Tentercroft, Town Mill Brow and Underwood.  

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Ellie Waters is a British born artist based between Northern England and Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her practice is grounded in social-documentary photography, with her own history of emigration she is interested in notions of home and belonging, and how we come to identify with the lands which we inhabit. 

Maryanne Royle

This work is the initial progress of a wider project exploring the inner body and connections between bodies using cassette tape, sound, sculpture, installation and performance. 

The sounds in the sculptural pieces have come from the ceramic studio of Alice Jennings, I have passed the recordings through effects and layered them within cassette tape to make a plastic soundscape. Alice and I are beginning a collaborative project to create a sculptural sonic garden which is due to be shown in Gallery FRANK in February 2024 funded by West of England Visual Arts Alliance. 

My performance is also the work in progress of a project researching historic textile manufacture in Lancashire specifically the use of mule spinning machines. Themes of collective memory, gestures between humans and machines, momentum, spinning, weaving, tension and industrial movement.

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Maryanne is an early-career artist from Rochdale interested in perception and how our bodies receive, process and store information. She works across disciplines often with collaboration at the heart of her process. 

She has performed music and shown visual art internationally and was shortlisted for Cultural Champion in the Rochdale Sports and Culture Awards 2022. 

The Velvet Shadow (Matt Temperley)

I like to take influences from the Ambient, IDM and Techno genres to make electronic music that reflects a sense of darkness, atmosphere and aggression. I’m often trying to express being caught within two internal states - sometimes between chaos & order, sometimes light & dark, other times calm and aggressive. I create my music using Ableton, modular synths, field recordings, samples and multi effects. 

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Matt is a musician and co-founder of Manchester Electronic Collective and runs the ‘Electronic Music Open Mic’ night BLEEP - a performance space for electronic musicians in Manchester. He is currently self releasing via AWAL.