Yorkshire Peat Partnership

I’m really pleased to be part of a Yorkshire Peat Partnership engagement project at Nethergill Farm in Upper Wharfedale. This project has been organised by Lucy Lee at the Yorkshire Peat Partnership and I’m working with Claire Harris, Head of Art at Ilkley Grammar School.

The workshop at the activity barn at Nethergill Farm will take place with students from Ilkley Grammar School. We’ll be making shapes in response to drawings, images and observations of the sphagnum moss species on the moorland at Nethergill Farm. The shapes might be either representative or more abstract and biomorphic. After the workshop, the shapes will be gathered and I’ll make a small series of mobiles. These will be exhibited in 2026 as part of an exhibition with work by five other commissioned artists, also generated through community engagement.

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Claire Halpin from the British Bryological Society has kindly given me permission to use her macro images of different species of sphagnum moss as part of the project. These species are all found at Nethergill Farm which is home to a diversity of peatland species rarely found in the Yorkshire Dales.