The Cry of the Curlew
Group Exhibition
Kendal Museum
Station Road
Kendal
LA9 6BT
20 June – 17 August 2024
(open Thursdays to Saturdays from 9am – 5pm)
A celebration of the curlew through original artwork, photography, poetry, sculpture and conservation. The beauty and fragility of Curlews is highlighted through photography of Paco Valera and prose-poetry by Barbara Murray. Artwork by Sally Zaranko, Hester Cox, Judith Bromley, and Robert Nicholls, alongside the wire sculptures of Stephanie Smith is on display. Swedish artists Emily Berry Mennerdahl and Jonas Böttern of Hillside Projects present work symbolising ecological collapse. A video and soundscape by June Gersten-Roberts features interviews with farmers on sustainability, along with Alastair McIntosh’s poem, Extinction set to the music of Loriana Pauli. A new watercolour work by Dr William Titley of In-Situ beautifully maps ‘The Curlew Way,’ as part of his Walking with Landscape project. A wonderful display by Curlew Recovery South Lakes will demonstrate the vital work they are doing to protect nests and support the delicate local population of these beautiful birds,
(NB Hester is showing four collagraphs and Migration, a series of photopolymer prints on Japanese paper hangings, that celebrate the curlews that migrate to the Yorkshire moorland to breed each year).