Michael Landy’s Welcome to Essex

A film commissioned as part of the Firstsite gallery’s 10th anniversary programme, featuring the installation of ‘Michael Landy’s Welcome to Essex’, 2021.

Travelling from Colchester to Southend, Tilbury to Romford Market, artist Michael Landy talks ‘Essexism’ with comedian Russell Kane, artists Elsa James and Maria Anastassiou, Professor Pam Cox (Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Essex) and ‘The Only Way is Essex’ legend, Amy Childs, who it turns out is related to Michael!