Lakenheath

Michelle Cobbin’s current work ‘draws upon memories of growing up in Lakenheath, Suffolk, during the Cold War, beside a large US military airbase which housed nuclear weapons and from which fighter jets flew over our heads most days.’ She adds: ‘With the imminent return of US nuclear weapons to this airbase, and the continuation of deafening planes on their daily exercises, I felt compelled to make work about this from the perspective of both the naive and innocent child resident that I was, and the now-informed anti-war adult visitor to family members still living next to the base.’