VISITORS to Queen Street Mill in Burnley will have the opportunity to view an exciting new exhibition by artist Lorraine Berry next month.

The title of the exhibition 'Return Visit' is an ambitious new installation project specially created for the Queen Street Mill Museum.

The work looks at the impact the textile industry has on the lives of people and looks at how choices are governed by the time into which people are born.

Concentrating on the experiences of three generations of a family from Lancashire who worked in the textile industry, the exhibition combines images created from fingerprint powder with recorded reminiscences.

Lorraine Berry is an artist with an interest in forensic science techniques using them as a metaphor for uncovering what lies beneath the surface.

Images and text created from fingerprint powder will be suspended in the work areas of the mill.

Fingerprint powder leaves only the trace of an image until stimulated by UV light and UV handheld scanners will be made available to visitors.

As the viewer scans photographic images of the family in their youth, they will hear the family's voices talking about their own experiences.

Lorraine said: "By interacting with the installation, the viewer is made aware of the reality of the history of this and the many other mills in Lancashire and how this history impacted on individual lives at a very personal level.

"In a broader artistic sense the installation looks at themes such as personal choice and shared experience.

"This site specific installation also touches upon the more universal themes of the passage of time, what's lost and what's been left behind."

It will be open to the public from July 14 to the end of August.