After the Bees, 2015 – 2017

In 2015, Powell received an Arts Council Grant for a large-scale two-year long project entitled ‘After the Bees’ in partnership with Manchester Museum. Informed by beekeepers, ecologists and sustainability experts, ‘After the Bees’ is an afecting story of bees told through film, photography, writing and sculpture. ‘After the Bees’ culminated in a nine month solo show at Manchester Museum during 2016-17 inclusive of a film screening of a surrealist documentary about bees, entitled ‘A Fable for Tomorrow’ narrated by actress Maxine Peake in March 2017.