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We went to Swaledale for a week, and after coming across a first waterfall, decided to explore some of the others in the valley. Having thought about falling water and gravity-fed fountains for the past 18 months in connection with the Sphagnum fountain in Ilkley, it...

Auction of final model in Ilkley Fountain limited edition series, donated by Ronnie DuncanReserve price: £1,700.00 TO PLACE A BID EMAIL: louisehepworthwood@yahoo.co.uk Auction ends 24 July with model available for viewing at Grove Bookshop, Ilkley 10 - 24 July...

Thanks to Laura Mate for these professional images. 

I went on one of a number of days organised by Moors for the Future and Friends of Ilkley Moor to plant Sphagnum plugs on Ilkley Moor as part of the restoration programme. As the day went on, we had to tread more and more carefully around all the tiny plugs we had...

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There was a strong sense of community at the opening of the Improving Ilkley art exhibition and auction to fundraise for the Ilkley Fountain project. An amazing 27 works of art donated by local artists, - all invited, organised and curated by Louise Hepworth-Wood,...

For more images of the Ilkley Fountain model, please see here. 

After a development phase during which we have worked collaboratively with Improving Ilkley and James Wilkinson on the scale model for the proposed fountain sculpture for the centre of Ilkley, we are pleased to share images of the results.The site-specific design is a...

'Breath Water Marks', a small exhibition of five mobiles at the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere, Lake District, has been extended until later this year.The mobiles are really enhancing the gallery spaces at Wordsworth Grasmere. People often comment about how lovely they...

The first pieces for an exhibition I am preparing for, 'Still', with Alice Fox, opening June 2024 at the Tinker Gallery. Images by David Lindsay.  

'Held', a series of mobiles inspired by Sphagnum Moss, will be exhibited at jaggedart London from Tuesday 28th November.

Our series of falling oak leaves, made as a response to exhibiting and spending time at the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere, will be at Tinker Gallery, Ilkley from 5th October - 23rd December as part of a show called 'The Written Word'.  We used a quote (written on the...

After the recent articles in The Observer, Guardian Online and Ilkley Gazette about the design for the Ilkley Fountain, we thought it might be helpful at this point for others and for ourselves if we write a note about how it is evolving. Our hope is that the design...

‘I felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God’s flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks. Some tiny dead part of me woke up to the moss...

Making some new shapes using stones which we have gathered.  

Earlier this year, on behalf of Dovetailing with Clare Dearnaley, I received some seed funding from Bradford 2025 to develop a proposal for a project around sphagnum moss which is still in development. Valuable support has been given by Born in Bradford and Moors for...

We are honoured that our design for the new Ilkley fountain has been selected through public vote, and that there will be a celebration of the moors, and more specifically sphagnum moss, at the centre of our town. We have been working with Improving Ilkley to adapt...

A small series of oak leaf mobiles responding to time spent at Dove Cottage and the woodland, using a quote from 'The Tables Turned'. 'The artworks look beautiful and the film is lovely; it made me stop and stare in the midst of a busy day – perfectly...

After spending time at the Wordsworth Museum and reading more about Wordsworth, I wrote down some thoughts which resonated with the development of Breath Water Marks (which are exhibited at the museum).     'It was also beautiful on the calm, hot nights to...

For a special exhibition to celebrate twenty-one years of jaggedart, each gallery artist was invited to present a work which fits within 40cm x 40cm. We made an oak leaf mobile in oak wood and with pyrography, have used part of a quote by Sartre about the mobiles of...

Essay by Ian Duhig to accompany a series of poems for an international anthology of Ekphrastic poetry - 'Dancing about Architecture', edited by Oz Hardwick and Cassandra Atherton   Breath Water Marks by Ian Duhig, 2023   "To most people who look at a mobile,...

I went to the Wordsworth Museum for a meeting to explore the possibility of hanging the new mobiles inspired by wake in the 'pause space'. Afterwards, I spent time exploring the Museum, Dove Cottage, the garden, orchard and the woodlands.

I knew nothing about moss until a couple of years ago when I read Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s a book which is both poetic and informative about the unique and transformative properties of moss, and since reading it the mosses on our local moorland have...

A few other poems which have inspired me while thinking about the concept of wake.