THRESHOLD

NOW SHOWING: Manchester School of Art Commission - From 5th June 2026

The Threshold project brings together a collection of works all concerned with the transition from pre to post-industrial world and its continuing echoes. It was timed to mark the exact 200 year anniversary of the march and subsequent massacre of weavers at Chatterton.

Threshold spans multiple exhibitions over the course of 2026, at the centre of which are the Threshold works themselves.

The project also includes Void, Winter Oak, and works from the Lithics, Grane Mill and Hare Clough series — all taken from the landscape or Rossendale, a place at the heart of a revolution that continues to shape our world.

Threshold Exhibitions:

Darkness Symposium

• MMU School of Digital Arts

• 19th - 20th March 2026

Cass Art Solo Show

• Cass Art Space, Manchester

• 18th April - 4th May 2026

Installation at Grane Mill, Haslingden

• 30th - 31st May 2026

Manchester School of Art Commission

• From 5th June 2026

“Fashioned after the image of Heaven, [man] should be enabled to scan its most distant worlds, and to augment his own strength in mitigation of his appointed labour, by engines so tremendously powerful as would crush, with a single stroke, his weak frame to atoms, whilst they form, under his directing skill, the smallest and most delicate things for the uses and ornaments of the world.

‘You must beat down those insane outrages by the whole strength and vigour of your laws. Select the guiltiest for condign punishment; but let no such guilt be spared.’”

• From Armata: A Fragment by Thomas, Lord Erskine, published 1817