Hope Strickland began a residency with Alchemy Film & Arts in May 2026.

Sundour will trace the entangled histories of analogue colour photography and dye production for the Scottish textiles industry, researching and responding to the resource extraction that enabled large-scale colour production across these contexts.

Specifically, the project will focus on the extraction of natural dyes imported from the Americas for use in the Scottish textiles industry, from the fifteenth century onwards, as well as the more recent use of synthetic dyes, which has obscured the correlation between colour and colonialism and tied the extractive process closer to the coal mining carried out at home.