UNSPUN is an immersive audio-visual installation by Colour Foundry - Fabric Lenny, Rebecca Smith and Nick Lewis - created in response to Lost Mills, a year-long research project by 509 Arts exploring Bradford’s textile industry.

Drawing on interviews, archival audio, photographs and written material, the project works with stories from mill workers, particularly from the later years of large-scale textile production. Rather than presenting this material directly, UNSPUN reworks it into a layered environment of sound and image.

The installation combines projected visuals with a multi-channel soundscape built from found audio, spoken word and music. Archival fragments are cut, looped and reassembled, creating a shifting composition that reflects the rhythms and structures of mill work without becoming literal. Visually, the work is built across multiple layers of projection, forming a semi-transparent environment that the audience can move through.

Alongside the installation, UNSPUN also exists as a live performance, incorporating a brass ensemble. This introduces a physical, local sound into the space, connecting the work to the musical traditions of the region while extending the installation into a time-based, shared event.

There is a sense of closeness within the work - voices, textures and sounds sitting alongside one another, building a shared atmosphere rather than a fixed narrative. It holds a quiet warmth, grounded in collective experience and the presence of many contributors.

UNSPUN brings together archive, sound and spatial practice to reframe industrial history as something active - held in fragments, reworked, and experienced collectively in the present.