Cuiridh Mi Clach Air Do Chàrn – I’ll Put a Stone on Your Cairn.

The installation will be open to view until May:
Free entry!
– Monday to Friday – 8am – 8pm 
– Saturday and Sunday 9am – 5pm 
Free parking at weekends 

I am delighted to share this work which I have made during my 6 month residency with IOU. 

Staying in Hebden Bridge and creating work in Halifax, I have enjoyed mooching all over the Calder Valley and seeing so much of what Yorkshire has to offer. But what really caught my eye were the cairns stacked elegantly but defiantly up on the moors. 

During my residency I have explored how these purposefully stacked stones could form in urban contexts using everyday materials, and how they could become ever evolving artworks where touching and adapting by the community is encouraged!

In this way, the original use of cairns and standing stones for rituals, navigation and memorial purposes are preserved whilst also encourage storytelling and play through these sculptures. 

Accompanying these cairns are other works made during the residency period including ceramics, paintings and a video. 

You are invited to take this opportunity to see cairns as the new roadside archive, a meeting point for storytelling, and the way marker offering you a way out of the endless labyrinth of ginnels. 

With thanks to the team who made this residency possible: 

Executive Director: Joanne Wain

Creative Directors: Lydia De La Murrãy and Richard Warburon

Marketing and communications: Sarah Ross

Technical manager: Loui Binns

Technical support: Jake 

Hostel team: Jill, Caren, Jamina, Maya and Donovan 

And with special thanks to:

The Birchcliffe Centre, Forget Me Nor Children’s Hospice, Oxfam, RSPCA Charity Shop, The A Word CIC, Overgate Charity Shop, Daniel Allison, Trixy and Jess, Chris, Cheryl, and the good people of Hebden Bridge and Halifax