Threshold I-VI

Rossendale, 2026

Giclée print on Hahnemühle Metallic Lustre

Approx 50 x 40cm.

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.

Each of the Threshold works depicts 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.