LONDON.- Art on the Underground is presenting a new sound artwork by 2023 Turner Prize-nominated artist Rory Pilgrim.

This new work emerges from Pilgrim’s long-term work with those affected by the criminal justice system. Recorded in two underground locations, with Go Find Miracles, Pilgrim asks how we go beneath the surface to imagine new structures of repair and possibility.

The 10-minute sound work has been developed in collaboration with HMP/YOI Portland and the Prison Choir Project, as well as the Mayor of London’s Culture and Community Spaces at Risk programme (CCSaR) and the Feminist Library in Peckham. Go Find Miracles can be heard at Waterloo Underground station along the travelator connecting the Northern and Jubilee lines, between 14-25 July 2025.

The sound work focuses on the role that the Isle of Portland, a small island in the English Channel, has played in shaping London through its stone quarries. The Isle of Portland is also the site of two prisons and the labour of the people imprisoned on the island has shaped its landscape.

Rory Pilgrim works collaboratively and in dialogue with others, across music composition, performance, film, drawing and text, reflecting and redefining how we come together to shape social change. Go Find Miracles expands from Pilgrim’s long-term collaboration with communities on Portland and developed following a workshop at The Feminist Library, explores the ways that the law impacts our lives and our environment.

Constituting a prayer of call and response that ultimately traces a 10-minute loop without end, Go Find Miracles asks, if we break the loop, is it here we find space for miracles?

The sound work can also be accessed through a QR code on a poster campaign across the London Underground, and can be heard alongside visual artworks installed throughout Waterloo London Underground station, making visible the listening experience and the ripple of connection between London and Portland.

Go Find Miracles is the third audio commission developed in collaboration with The Mayor of London’s Culture and Community Space’s at Risk programme (CCSaR) to spotlight and amplify grassroots organisations they have supported, and produce audio installations that can be heard across London Underground stations.