A public artwork commissioned and produced in collaboration with Household that explored untold acts and histories of labour, care and maintenance; and the communities that form around them; focusing on the forms associated with the pragmatic and incidental gestures of work and working environments and the inventive ways that people solve problems using mundane objects and structures. My starting point for this work was the National Museums Northern Ireland A.R. Hogg and R.J. Welch archive collection, which included photographs commissioned from 1920s-40s that documented the machines and wares produced in Belfast. To Make a Monument re-presented a selection of this overlooked archive, mostly viewed by researchers and archivists, back into the public. The images chosen included objects and details that acknowledged subtle acts of looking, staging, framing and making by invisible hands and eyes. The installations around the Queen’s University campus publicly celebrated the presence and efforts of unseen workers. They considered how labour could be represented outside of the institution, creating temporary monuments to the small, evocative gestures of workers, the objects and goods they produced, and the spaces where they worked.