Our Yard Foundations Pop Up
Our Yard
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Date: Sat 20 - Sat 27 June
Time: 11:00 - 16:00 (Weekend), 12:00 - 16:00 (Weekdays)
Venue: The Montgomery
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Foundations is a pop-up exhibition exploring the cultural impact of Caribbean sound system heritage in the UK.
Presented by Nate Coltrane, the installation brings together a curated listening station, oral history interviews, and behind-the-scenes gallery.
The exhibition centres on sound system culture as a form of social infrastructure, tracing its role in shaping community, identity and collective experience. Through sound, image and storytelling, Foundations invites audiences to engage with the voices, histories and creative legacies that continue to influence British culture today.
Foundations is produced in association with Greensleeves Records.
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This exhibition forms a part of our full exhibition & installation line-up at The Montgomery, including:
Interior Landscapes - by Jack Owen and City of Sanctuary Sheffield
The Union Jila Project - Komarine Romdenh-Romluc and Ian Nesbitt
(un)borderings - by Aria Danaparamita, Mariana Duarte, Alex Nevill, Ahmad Al Shehabi
The Matter of Migration - by Frontier Media with Liz Von Graevenitz
Our Yard Foundations Pop Up - by Our Yard
Exhibition Opening Times:
Weekends = 11:00 - 16:00
Weekdays (Monday to Friday) = 12:00 - 16:00
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Nate Coltrane is a Nottingham-based artist and curator, and founder of Our Yard; a platform exploring the positive impact of immigration on UK culture through the lens of Caribbean sound system heritage. His work centres on documenting and amplifying the voices, stories and cultural contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants.
His recent exhibition Foundations, presented at New Art Exchange, brings this work into a physical space through a combination of oral history interviews, immersive sound, archive and visual installation. The exhibition positions sound system culture as a form of social infrastructure, tracing how it has shaped community, identity and collective experience in Britain.
Through Our Yard, Coltrane has developed an ongoing body of interviews with key cultural figures including Sir Lloyd Coxsone, Don Letts, Channel One, Mad Professor and Dennis Bovell. These conversations have been shared through broadcast platforms including Mixcloud and Rinse FM, creating an accessible archive of lived experience and cultural memory.
Working across exhibition, audio and moving image, his practice is rooted in cultural preservation, storytelling and community engagement. His work continues to create space for underrepresented histories, connecting past and present through sound, archive and lived experience.
EVENT INFO
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Free Entry
You don’t need a ticket to visit the exhibitions at Migration Matters Festival. Just visit The Montgomery and enjoy your time.
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Saturday & Sunday Opening Times:
11:00 - 16:00Monday to Friday Opening Times:
12:00 - 16:00 -
Accessibility Information to be updated soon.
If you have any questions about your access needs in the meantime, please contact access@migrationmattersfestival.co.uk using the subject line ‘Accessibility at the festival’
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Age Guidance: All Ages
Content Warning: There are no content warnings for this event
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Photography Credit: @fotosbydan