Community Exhibitions
Farfield Mill has hosted a variety of community exhibitions. Please get in touch if you are interested in exhibiting a community exhibition with us at Farfield Mill by contacting the manager manager@farfieldmill.org
Our Upland Commons
The exhibition in the community gallery sheds a light on life, nature and culture in England’s upland commons. It shares work from the ongoing ‘Our Common Cause: Our Upland Commons’ project, which brings commoners, landowners and communities together in upland commons in the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District, Dartmoor and the Shropshire Hills. The project celebrates the nature and culture of these places, and the work that’s being done to support commoning and nature recovery in these precious upland landscapes.
Come along to find out more about life in the upland commons, including Brantfell Common which overlooks Sedbergh. The exhibition includes a selection of Rob Fraser’s hand-printed real film portrait images of people whose voices matter in conversations about the future of these much loved places.
The project is run by The Foundation for Common Land with project partners including the Yorkshire Dales National Park. More information here:
https://foundationforcommonland.org.uk/commons-stories
Work on the Commons Stories has been carried out by local artists Harriet Fraser and Rob Fraser through their collaborative practice, somewhere nowhere.com
Soft By Shine – Marisa Crane
Marisa Crane is an emerging multidisciplinary artist working in many forms of media, from movement and found objects, to textiles and written word. A graduate of the Ruskin School of Art (University of Oxford), and founder of Folded Zine, her work often explores a sense of fragility of time and unstable memory, at the intersection of place and pattern. This exhibition brings together many of her most recent pieces, all of which were made from December 2022, onwards. Each piece glances by topics such as grief, loss and growth, with a signature shock of humour and colour.
Smardale Gill – Jill Brown
12 August 2022 – 30 Ocotber 2022
Smardale Gill and its railway viaduct in Cumbria are inextricably linked to Jill’s family history. It is now impossible to imagine the rumble of train through this wild landscape, but her installation explores this history referencing archival text (1860-1900) as a narrative. Using photographs taken while she walked the old rail line across the four seasons, she used sublimation printing to transfer image and text to translucent voile sheets. These voile images were subsequently taken back to their home in Smardale Gill and photographed coming alive in the never-ending breeze in the valley.
School Exhibitions
Sedbergh School have exhibited work from students completing exam work. The exhibit was visited by the students, their families, and friends. Settlebeck Secondary School exhibited a collaborative piece highlighting pollution plastic in our oceans. Dent Primary School children worked alongside visiting artists to create a marvellous textile village, which took up a large area on level 4.
Through the Locking Glass Exhibition
‘Through the locking glass’ is an artistic response to these confined times, capturing a unique moment in human history.’ Publisher David Felton
Farfield Mill displayed a collection of images of the lockdown creations from artists in Cumbria which were collated in Inspired by Lakeland’s new book ‘Through the Locking Glass – What Cumbrian artists did during lockdown’ – a 168-page book of illustration, print, fine art, poetry, photography and sculpture made by artists throughout the county.
Fell Ponies Heritage Exhibition – The Fell Pony Heritage Trust
An exhibit of beautiful photographs reflecting the life of a fell pony throughout the year from the Fell Pony Heritage Trust. The exhibition was to celebrate the heritage of these wonderful ponies native to the British Isles and bred on the hills or Fells mainly to the eastern side of Cumbria for centuries.
The Fell Pony Heritage Project recognises the Fell Ponies’ history is one that should not be forgotten. The mission of the trust is to share understanding of this breed’s past and to enable the support the breed needs for the future.
