Lead Lines 03

Product description

Inspired maps and  walking journeys through the northern landscape this work invokes both the permanence and fragmentation of our environment .  

Cast in bronze to which coloured patina highlights textures creating a glowing surface, while the Lead Line of the title references lead mining remains in Hebden Gill

This piece is about the route up Hebden Gill onto Yarnbury, where lead mining took place from the 17th century up until 1927. The now grassed-over ruins in pleasant surroundings where many people enjoy hiking hide the dirty, violent and dangerous conditions that used to be there when it was mined for lead ore. In the same way, my subtle, natural coloured bronze pieces hide the intense heat required to cast them, and the repeated hammering required to force the lead into the groove that is cut through them.