Inspirations and Influences

St George's Fields - Images

One of my very favourite places in Leeds, nestled in amongst the university campus.
If you haven't been - you must for it is wonderful.

Remembrance

This Is One Of My Places - Meanwood Park

                      It was misty that day

The beck was peaceful

the sky bright behind the trees

but then the snowbeast came

I fled back to the beck hoping to see this 

only to find my refuge had already been claimed by the snowbeast

Talk 6pm Thursday 29th May 2014 Inkwell

PS It's free so come on down if you can :-)

Almost a week after the book launch...there is this...

Please come along if you can....

Book Launch Nerves....

Saw a pic of the proofs of the Place and Memory book today, looks amazing. Am excited about the launch at Inkwell on Friday when I will be able to get my hands on an actual paper copy and so will you if you come down and buy one.

Hope to see you there.....

Inkwell can be found at the top of Potternewton Lane just off Harrogate Road in what used to be the Shoulder of Mutton pub. 

The fun starts at 6pm....

  

Place and Memory Book Launch and Exhibition Inkwell 6pm Friday 23rd May 2014

Last summer 8 artists were picked to take part in the Place and Memory Project - I was lucky to be one of them. I spent the summer in a glorious haze of learning, researching, discovering, practicing and creating.

You can come and see the results of mine and the other artists work on Friday 23rd May 2014 at 6pm at Inkwell (formerly the Shoulder of Mutton pub on Potternewton Lane) entrance is free - there will be wine, readings, poetry, art and books - what more could you want of your Friday evening?  

St George's Fields - one of the Place and Memory Project Places

December 26th 1833 saw work begin on the boundary walls of the cemetery at St George's Fields, the walls were 12 foot high and cost £1,169.
The site welcomed its first burial  on July 23rd 1835 - it was that of military surgeon George McDermott and burials continued there until October 1969. There were 93,556 interments in total.

The land was bought back by the University and landscaped into the form it has today, none of the bodies were exhumed - their remains are still there under your feet as you walk round. Most of the monuments were broken up and used as infill for the hillocks there today.

The Victorians intended cemeteries to serve both the living and the dead - for the dead it was a place of interment and for the living it was an area for 'quiet, peace and meditation'

To see more images of St George's Fields and the other parts of Leeds chosen by the artists for the Place and Memory Project come to the exhibition at Inkwell (formerly the Shoulder of Mutton pub on Potternewton Lane Leeds 7) on Friday 23rd May 6pm-9pm and there will also be a book of the project available to buy.