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A brand new set of enormous pieces of public art are aboutto be added to the Cumbrian landscape.
Five metres high and distinctive by their style of strips of metal, a huge bull and a mare with a foal have been commissioned by Cumberland Council to mark the completion of the new Carlisle southern link road.
Not without some differences of opinion about them, the new work will dominate two roundabouts for thousands of road users to see for years to come.
They’ve been created by Cumbrian born blacksmith and welder Ellie Barden at her forge and workshop near Penrith. On a fresh winter’s morning, Tom Speight went to meet Ellie as she finalised her work, to discover how she became inspired to become and remain an artist in Cumbria….
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Lorna Singleton is one of Britain’s last remaining swillers, a specialist in weaving baskets using coppiced oak and hazel. Using simple hand tools and ancient techniques, she creates baskets based on traditional patterns from South Cumbria as well as patterns found on her travels.
She’s based in G…
Rosehill is a beautiful arts centre based just outside Whitehaven high up overlooking the Irish Sea.
It’s a hub for all kinds of performance and brings both
local and national talent on stage. But it’s also increasingly engaging with its local community too.
CACN’s Tom Speight went along to tal…
The Catalyst project is an ongoing collaboration between the University of Cumbria, Art Gene, the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership and the Cumbria Arts and Culture Network.
Its aim was to find three artists with Cumbrian connections– to fund them to the tune of £25,000 each, to give them an opp…
Alison Critchlow is a contemporary British painter based in Bowness on Solway – right on the northern edge of Cumbria.
She paints mainly in oils. She’s recently been shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024, an annual event which promotes the best of contemporary painting produ…
Eden Project Morecambe is something that’s been talked
about for some years now – the development of a brownfield sight in the Lancashire town into something like the massively successful Eden Project in Cornwall. And it’s recently been handed another £2.5m by the government, bringing the total fun…
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