After the Storm
- Paths You Walk
- RIM-2026-003
- 2026
- Butts Road, Walsall, 1964
- Billy Dosanjh
- Adam Tomlinson
- Deborah Aston
- © Billy Dosanjh
- Paths You Walk
- 1964 election
- Butts Road Walsall
- South Asian diaspora
- Caribbean diaspora
- Black Country
- panoramic
- magic realism
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About this work
After the Storm is the first tableau in Paths You Walk, commissioned as part of The National Lottery Heritage Fund project.
A snow-covered Black Country street stretches into the distance, framed by terraced houses on both sides. Warm light spills from the windows — the interior lives of the community made visible against the cold. Streetlamps glow through the falling snow. A solitary figure walks away from us down the centre of the empty road, past shuttered shopfronts and the silhouette of a church tower.
The street is Butts Road, Walsall, reimagined in 1964 — the year of Britain’s most notorious racially charged election campaign.
Production
- Art Director: Adam Tomlinson (Dead Man’s Shoes, This is England)
- Producer: Deborah Aston (Small Axe, Boiling Point)
- Student crew: 18 Walsall College students across art department, costume, hair and makeup, and production support
Exhibition
After the Storm is exhibited at The New Art Gallery Walsall (Community Gallery), 6 March – 6 July 2026, and at partner community venues in Caldmore and Walsall Library.
© Billy Dosanjh / Reimagining Industrial Migratory Stories CIC. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. For high-resolution or print enquiries: reindmigs@gmail.com