The Night the Mountains Moved responds to a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute. Through a series of online workshops across the summer of 2020, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experience of the unknown in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19.  Animation materials included paper, yarn, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity. These sessions and animations inspired the large-scale collage installation, responding to the symbiotic relationship between patients, researchers and charitable funding organisations, and what it takes to confront the unknown.

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Commissioned by Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute for Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Centre at Cambridge Biomedical Campus, in partnership with Blood Cancer UK and Kettle's Yard.