From The Estate is a collaborative project comprising of field recordings and photographs guiding the viewer through an exploration of green spaces within four council and social housing estates in Sheffield: Gleadless Valley, Herdings Park, Jordanthorpe, and Stannington.
Jim Ghedi’s field recordings provide audio narratives to each area. Whilst capturing the ambient sounds of the environment, Ghedi contributes subtle musical additions to the field recordings by synth and drone accents as a reference to the urbanised parts of the industrial city, as well as utilising sounds extracted from archive sound libraries.
Laura Merrill illustrates the romanticism and realism of the green spaces, how they are utilised, and the co-existence of nature and city in proximity to each other. Furthermore, the photographs deliver commentary on the absence of people which became commonplace during the COVID 19 pandemic.
