Hats off to Louise and I for only getting a little bit lost on our journey to Grizedale Arts.
Grizedale is a place that I have wanted to visit for a long time. But the remoteness of it’s main site, Lawson Park, has made it a bit more of a challenge. Yet, Grizedale has had artist visitors from around the globe in it’s 20 years of existence.
Hearing about projects at Lawson Park and in the nearby village, Coniston, you sense Grizedale’s relationship with place and locality (and with that, the people who make up the community). But Grizedale has also forged a vast international network and developed long term projects in other corners of the globe. At first this may seem opposing but speaking with Director, Adam Sutherland, you begin to understand the complexities and threads running through these projects and the decision to undertake them. A conceptual framework which Louise and I found super interesting…
