Billy Dosanjh, Artist and Filmmaker

After the Storm, from Paths You Walk: Butts Road, Walsall during the 1962 Big Freeze. Deep snow on the road, period shopfronts lit from inside, a solitary figure standing in the white.
‘The Edward Hopper of the Black Country’The Guardian, June 2026
First London solo exhibition · James Freeman Gallery · 18 February 2027
Dayshift, from The Exiles: a cluster of Black Country terraced houses at night, lit windows showing scenes inside, figures gathered in back gardens, factory chimneys silhouetted on the horizon.
Selected work · Arts Council Collection

Dayshift

The first work in The Exiles, made in 2019 as what was, in principle, a single-shot film. Composed from over eight hundred source files, exposed across a row of two-up two-downs at the Black Country Living Museum, the image holds eight separate scenes in one frame: a man stirs a pot on a gas fire, a singer in an outhouse, a sleeper, a TV flickering through a window, a neighbour watching.

Acquired by the Arts Council Collection. Shown at the New Art Gallery Walsall and exhibited as part of The Exiles in 2022. Seamstress and Furnacemen were acquired by the Contemporary Art Society and placed at The New Art Gallery Walsall.

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Selected Works

Photography & Film

Selected Films

Documentary & Artist Film
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Billy Dosanjh works in film, photography, sculpture, and print. The work is set in and about the Black Country, the de-industrialised factory towns of the West Midlands, the ground his father came to from the Punjab in 1967.

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