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Claire Wellesley-Smith and Amber Butchart

Claire Wellesley-Smith and Amber Butchart

Update: 2025-09-16
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Amber Butchart is in conversation with artist and academic Claire Wellesley-Smith, about their co-curated exhibition The Synthetic Revolution. The show looks at the development of the first polyester fibre made from crude oil by-products in Accrington, which was later branded with the name Terylene. They discuss how this local story became not only global but intergalactic in the post-war decades of the 1950s and 60s.

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Claire Wellesley-Smith and Amber Butchart

Claire Wellesley-Smith and Amber Butchart