Shaped by Stone exhibition at Tegg’s Nose Country Park (Barnaby Festival Art Exhibition)

 

Over Millennia we have shaped stone: chipped, cut, split, crushed – turned hillsides into quarries – strata into streets.  Like many other towns this process is the foundation of Macclesfield. The pink and blue-ish Gritstone of Tegg’s Nose has been quarried for hundreds of years. The hill exists as fragments around the town – scattered. It sits there in the walls, the facing of buildings and the lining of streets.

Through a dialogue between analogue processes – namely, large format photography, drawing (embossed rubbings), darkroom experimentation, writing, walking and talking – artists Tom Baskeyfield and Mario Popham aim to bring to the fore these layers of our shared history.

Learn more about this Barnaby Festival project by visiting the project gallery at Tegg’s Nose Country Park Visitor Centre. There is also a partner exhibition at Jack Stevens, The Art Yard during the same period.

Commissioned by the Macclesfield Barnaby Festival 2016.

Time: 10.00am to 4.00pm (Closing view: Sunday 26th 3pm – 4pm)
Meeting point: Tegg’s Nose Country Park Visitor Centre, Buxton Old Road, Macclesfield, SK11 0AP (SJ950733)
Information: Shaped by Stone exhibition information
(Children must be accompanied by an adult / Car parking charge)