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

The installation was open to view until May 2025:
Free entry!
– Monday to Friday – 8am – 8pm 
– Saturday and Sunday 9am – 5pm 
Free parking at weekends 

Work made between 2024-2025 during a 6 month residency with IOU in Hebden Bridge and Halifax. 

During this residency I explored how cairns, 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 those who pass it by 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. 

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