An exhibition of art and poetry at Birdoswald Roman Fort, Cumbria.
(July to October, 2014)
Connor’s new photographic series Holystone,plays on the notion that light and colour can permeate stone, and will always return to breach and brighten the darker walls of history.
The exhibition includes a number of poems and images from In the Pause of Passing his recent collaboration with his friend, the artist Paul Stangroom.
Connor has also placed especially written poetic interventions within the fort’s permanent collection of antiquities and artefacts. He offers a very personal response to objects discovered in and around Birdoswald such as a child’s gravestone, gold rings, dice, spoons and even roof tiles. In the catalogue for the LYC exhibition, he quoted W.H.Auden’s line ‘for poetry makes nothing happen….’, but declared that for him, poetry makes everything happen.
The exhibition is open every day 10.00 to 18.00