Yasmina Hilal and Harry Payne will lead a public workshop using material from the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard archive, experimenting with digitisation and creative reinterpretation. Images made during the workshop will be combined with Yasmina’s family archive from Tripoli, Lebanon. Presented near the entrance to the dockyard, the result will be a large-scale heritage collage mashup.

Part of Memory Library, 14–21 November 2026. Find out more here.

Artist Bio:

Yasmina Hilal (b. 1996, Lebanon) is a visual artist and photographer whose practice moves between image-making, experimentation and emotional storytelling. She studied Visual Media Arts and Photography at Emerson College, developing an interest in alternative darkroom techniques, scanning and image manipulation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Beirut, Brussels, Doha and London.

Harry Payne is an artist based in England whose practice spans interactive installation, emerging technology and material craft to explore archives, heritage, memory and futures. Combining real-time systems, interactive environments and archival materials, he creates spaces in which historical narratives are reactivated and audiences can become participants.