why live anywhere else?

Gravesend

Exodus Crooks, ‘why live anywhere else?’, 2025. Photo: Sam Wainwright

Exodus Crooks, ‘why live anywhere else?’, 2025. Photo: Sam Wainwright

Exodus Crooks, ‘why live anywhere else?’, 2025. Photo: Sam Wainwright

Exodus Crooks, ‘why live anywhere else?’, 2025. Photo: Sam Wainwright

Exodus Crooks, ‘why live anywhere else?’, 2025. Photo: Sam Wainwright

Exodus Crooks, ‘why live anywhere else?’, 2025. Photo: Sam Wainwright

Join us at Gravesend Library and Archives where artist Exodus Crooks’ will be displaying their work with Art and Photography students at Northfleet School for Girls. Together they have been exploring Northfleet’s local geography through alternative forms of charting its space and place.

Inspired by the practice of counter-mapping, Exodus and the students have used text, drawing, cyanotype, and found materials to create a collaged, ‘new’ map of Northfleet which highlights the young people’s experiences of the place, overlaid on existing maps of the town.

This event is part of Exodus Crooks why live anywhere else?, which has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Creative Estuary, Gravesham Borough Council, and Ebbsfleet Development Corporation through the Northfleet Place Partnership. With additional support from Northfleet School for Girls.