Residencies
Weh Deh Here
Maybelle Peters began a residency with Alchemy Film & Arts in September 2024.
We Deh Here explores family connections, historical ties and traces of colonial encounters. Manifesting as a film and exhibition, the work had its first public iteration at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2025. It was presented as part of Forum Expanded at the 2026 Berlinale and screened at the eighth edition of Third Horizon and sixth edition of Prismatic Ground.
Drawing and expanding on the artist’s focus on movement through observation, labour and animation, the project seeks to connect personal narratives to wider historical events, researching materials held in official archives together with family histories along matrilineal lines, sewing, and associations with Guyana and Scotland.
Maybelle’s residency was part of The Teviot, the Flag and the Rich, Rich Soil, Alchemy’s programme of artist residencies supporting the generation of new knowledge through long-term, practice-led research and multidisciplinary partnerships.
On Tour
We Deh Here is part of a touring programme alongside two other Alchemy-produced residency films, The Wool Aliens (2023) by Julia Parks and On Weaving (2025) by Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn.
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Photo: Maybelle discusses her film as part of Berlinale Forum Expanded 2025
Sitdown
Maybelle spoke to Alchemy Trustee Rhea Storr to discuss the themes and processes of We Deh Here ahead of its 16mm exhibition at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2025.
A new essay by David Alston was commissioned to accompany We Deh Here, to mark the film’s premiere at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2025.
Maybelle Peters
Maybelle Peters is a London-based artist and filmmaker working with digital video, film, CGI and textiles. Her practice explores the movement of Black corporeality in time and space using an archive of ephemera, gestures and sounds. Her first commissioned film, A Lesson in History for BBC2, was followed by an animated adaptation of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. She received the inaugural Womxn of Colour art award (2020) and has presented work at various international festivals. Maybelle holds a doctorate in creative technology from the University of the Arts London, where her inquiry examined extractivism through motion capture.
Photo: Sanne Gault