d. Wilma Stone (UK, 2025) 82m

In Grey Milk & Lost Kin, artist filmmaker Wilma Stone gathers what has been discarded—damaged film, fragmented images, and forgotten archival voices, with her own contemporary shot footage and field recordings—and transforms them into a polyphonic dreamscape.

Crafting an imaginary world of her hidden ancestral lineage—from the Gypsy/Traveller communities of Scotland—she restitches the torn edges of a history that colonial legacies have sought to unmake. Inscribed by and in dialogue with historical and psychic traumas, its decay speaks of the slow violence of forgetting, mirroring the way memory corrodes under the weight of neglect.

Grey Milk & Lost Kin is an evocative act of reclamation, a bearing witness to what has been lost and what still endures and calls out to us to be made real, to be remembered, and to be named.

Stone chooses to use the term ‘Nawkin’ instead of the official label ‘Scottish Gypsy/Traveller’, which many in the community find inaccurate or imposed. ‘Nawkin’ and its variations—rooted in the Cant language—carry deep ancestral meaning and reflect a history of displacement and self-definition, resisting fixed categories and official records. By using ‘Nawkin’ with care and intention, Stone honours her ancestors and affirms the right to name oneself on one’s own terms.

View this moving image work in the CCA Gallery on Friday 7 & Saturday 8 November.

Wilma Stone will join us for a Q&A in the Gallery space on Saturday 8 November from 11am to 12pm. This event is not ticketed, you are welcome to just come along on the day.