In April 1826, several thousand handloom weavers marched across the moorland above Rossendale, Lancashire, to destroy the power looms threatening their way of life. Six were shot dead by government forces.
At the centre of this body of work are six large-scale prints - Threshold I–VI - each a photograph of an ancient hand-hewn gatepost standing on the route of the weavers’ march. Built before iron fixings, before mechanised production, the stones mark the boundary between the organic past and the world of technology that consumed it. They are threshold objects in the most literal sense - once physical boundary markers, the stones also register the point of transition to the industrial world.
Printed via UV cure and float-mounted on GF Smith Plike, the images themselves operate at the threshold of visibility — printed black on black, their presence glimmering and fading with movement and the fall of light.
The show also includes Void, Winter Oak, and works from the Lithics, Grane Mill and Hare Clough series — all taken from the same landscape, all concerned with related questions of transition, persistence and the loss of meaning.
