Aggregate like a semi-precious sculptural object found separated from the road surface it was once part of

1 of 9 billboards commissioned as part of Living Together across the public realm on the Becontree Estate, Dagenham.

The public realm exhibition made visible some of the objects collected as part this long term project. The work intends to reflect the material of the place including building matter and archival political material. This new archive - The Becontree Collection - brings together material from the last 100 years, collected from individuals, through a long period of public engagement and from Keefe’s long-term documentation of the estate.

Living Together was a major art commission which formed part of a wider programme with Create London celebrating the centenary of the Becontree estate in Barking and Dagenham and culminates Keefe’s many years of work in and about the estate. It looked at the past 100 years of social housing through the lens of Becontree, which was once the largest social housing estate in the world; looking at its past, the present and into the future. The project ran live through the centenary year of 2021, during an urgent period of economic, social and political change and the ever-evolving backdrop of Covid-19, which was responded to within the production of works.