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Hematite/Specularite - West Cumbriafrom Kendal Museum geology collections
IntroductionCumbria’s coastal fringe cradling the iconicLake District is now on the front line of theplan for “the safest place on earth” tocontain heat generating nuclear wastes. Lakeland has wonderfully diverse andcomplex geology. From Eskdale 'granite' orgneiss and the Solway's Mercia Mudstone tobeautiful minerals such as blue fluorite,calcite, quartz and hematite. There is a planto try to use that geology as the last line ofdefence to contain radioactive wastes. This art exhibition and series of eventslooks at Lakeland’s geological heritagethrough the lens of “geological disposal ofnuclear wastes.”Tourist Map circa 1920s
From the ArchivesArchival material including circa 1900pre-nuclear industry postcards fromSeascale, a 1980’s silver plated jam spoonfrom the now closed Sellafield VisitorCentre and beer mats from campaignersand from industry.
“Grizebeck Beach and the Furness Fells” Oil on canvas 76 x 45cm £7,500Painted in the studio from drawings made onsite, the fells are true to life but the sky, asalways, and the foreground, sea and beach, areinvented. The village of Grizebeck sits belowKirkby Fell, close to low lying land which is just afew metres above sea level. I am imagining thesea flooding the flat valley and waves from thesouth west eroding the shore, demolishing abandoned farms and houses. Themain road between Greenodd and Millom wouldbe washed away and I have imagined a clean,blue-green sea and pale sandy beach. Thevegetation I have kept as it is now, realising thislandscape as one in which only the sea has risen,giving the Cumbrian coast as being like that ofThe Western Isles of Scotland, or Cornwall, orPembrokeshire, which was my initial intention.www.martingreenland.co.ukGuest Artist: Martin Greenland
Danny Clahane“Speranza” Carved in Broughton Moor green slate30cm high x 15cm wide x 45cm long £1500.www.dannyclahane.com
Julian Cooper“Coniston Quarrry 1.” Oil on canvas137 x 71 cm. £7,500www.juliancooper.co.uk
Russell Mills“It's Happening while We Are Not #1” 92 x 122 cm (36” x 48”) £5000.00Oils, acrylics, etching varnishes, chemicals,earth, ash, feathers on canvas, card, paper,metallic foil, on wood. www.russellmills.com
Steve Wallis“The Time out of Joint” Installation 2024This dislocated time is the nuclear age, "ourtime". Nuclear waste placed underground, thecounter culture forced underground. The threatof annihilation from nuclear weapons andaccidents juxtapose the spirit of pastidealism and anticipated futures that haunt ourculture as a virtuality.https://stevewallisart.wordpress.com
Debbie Nicholas““Buried Treasure” Acrylic on Canvas £120.T 07946763948
Dorothy Ramsay“Pollard Trees in the Lake District.” £250Instagram: Dorothy Ramsay Artist
Kate Bentley“Sunshine and Showers” Oil. 45x79cm. £1995www.katebentley.co.uk
Ace Hoffman“The Code Killers”Compendium of nuclear issues made available asa print on demand book especially for RockSolid?2 £10.50 + p&p at https://rocksolid2.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-code-killers-by-ace-hoffman.html www.acehoffman.org
Andrea Pentecost“Volcaniclastic Sandstone, Duddon Valley”Graphite 39cm x 29cm £490https://lakeartists.org.uk/prize-winners-2023/
David Autumns“Borrowdale Mills” Framed photograph £120www.allseasonsphotography.co.uk
Lionel Playford“Ash and Rowan under the Mountain” Oil on canvas £2300 unframedhttps://lionelplayford.artweb.com
Irene Rogan“Whited Sepulchres - nuclear semiotics” Installation: ‘Whited sepulchres’ a term forhypocrisy and corruption from within, found inJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and TheNew Testament concerning corrupt priests.www.irenerogan.co.uk
Denise Derbyshire“Carnforth Ash and Coal” Acrylic on canvas 70 x 50cm £540Email: denise.derbyshire@outlook.com
Marianne Birkby“Wainwright and the Next Wave” Oil on canvas64cm x 54cm £600www.mariannebirkby.com
Ann Dutczak“Deep Mine, Deep Time” Altered image on canvas £98https://wastwater1.wixsite.com/ann-dutczak-art
Tim Leeson“Aperture Borrowdale Banksy” Watercolour £250Facebook- Tim Leeson Art
Rebecca Bennett“Different Perspective” signed photo art on canvas£95Instagram - Rebecca Bennett Art
Fiona Clucas “Curlew At Dusk,Heversham Marsh”Charcoal & Graphite 56cm x 71cm £975www.fiona-clucas.co.uk
Joan Keerie Storm over The Lakes” Size in frame 46cm x 58cm £180Instagram Joan Keerie Art
Irene Sanderson Florence mine, Egremont, CumbriaMedium: Hematite and slate 42 x 60 cm £650.00www.irenesanderson.co.uk
A Poem by the late Terry Jones A Poem by the late Terry Jones of Monty Python fameIn late 1979 and early 1980s Parliament looked at possible sites for the burial of radioactive wastes (notincluding in Cumbria). Some of the 9 sites were large areas including the “Worcester Basin” whichstretched across Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester. Friends of the Earth Evesham decided toorganise a “spot the dump” competition. The prize for the winner was a poem specially written by TerryJones. “They didn’t want it in London There are too many folk there (with friends).And they couldn’t go and put it near Brighton,Because that’s where they spend their weekendsThey ruled out all the places near WindsorWhere you just don’t know who it offends,And Berkshire is frightfully prettyAnd so are the Downs and the Thames.The Chilterns are too full of tourists On whom our whole country depends,And Kent has got such lovely houses,And it’s just far too wet in the Fens.And Henley and Sidcup and FinchleyAre all places one…somehow…defends…So they thought that they’d dump it in Evesham Just where the rainbow ends.”By Terry JonesMonty Python and the Holy Grail logo for the 1975 film directed by Gilliam and Jones
Beckermet baryte, West Cumbria from KendalMuseum geology collections.