Angela Burdon

I co-founded Lungs Project as a curatorial collective and independent publishing press to support artists and writers from chronically underrepresented backgrounds. At its core, Lungs is about building a supportive, collaborative community of early-career creatives by bringing together contemporary art, photography, and literature. We aim to spark cross-disciplinary dialogues and create new opportunities for emerging voices. As an independent organization, we’re committed to fostering critical thought and experimental methods through both publishing and curatorial work—in galleries, print, and digital spaces.

Our work is grounded in the politics and ethics of cultural production, with a focus on curatorial and editorial activism. Some of our ongoing interests include feminist art, the African diaspora and Black Atlantic histories, photography, storytelling, collaborative processes, and embodied practices like dance and movement.

Since launching our first contemporary art and literature journal in Sunderland in September 2016—alongside a pop-up exhibition called Emerging!—we’ve continued to publish and present work that challenges and expands the cultural conversation. The second issue, Dialogus, was released with an exhibition in Newcastle in October 2017. In 2018, we curated a film program called Poly Voices, also in Newcastle. We published New Landscapes Anthology in 2019, a poetry collection highlighting emerging women and non-binary poets of color. In 2021, we partnered with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company to create Love Notes, an interdisciplinary project that blended print, digital storytelling, and movement. Our most recent journal, Visions of Home, released in November 2021, brings together photography and poetry from African and African-diasporic perspectives.

You can learn more at: https://www.lungsproject.org/