03/06/2026
Preview Evening Next Friday 12th June 6-8pm
Rose Ferraby | Scarpland
Come along, meet artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby and get a first look at the collection before it opens to the public.
We’ll have welcome gin cocktails courtesy of the team at and .north will be providing some delicious food to enjoy while you browse.
ALL WELCOME
Entry is free, but please RSVP (link in bio) to let us know you’re coming.
Here’s one of Rose’s pieces from the exhibition -
‘Blawearie’ is just up the road from us near Chatton a magical area steeped in thousands of years of history.
Blawearie, (translates to ‘tired of the wind’)
Rose Ferraby -
The Cairnfields, Blawearie’ is an exploration of a cluster of Bronze Age funerary monuments on Old Bewick Moor. The cairns are stone built mounds, holding rock-lined cists for burials. Dating to around 2000 BC, these form part of a complex prehistoric landscape; a landscape where people have returned time and again. From the high cusp of land on which the cairnfield is rooted, we can see hillforts hunkered on scarps, rocks where rock art dances, and ruins and traces of agriculture through time.
I was drawn to this site because of this very particular – and very magical – sense of place. The collage combines different elements of the site and my memories of it. The horizon holds the Iron Age hillfort and ruined farmhouse, the heather and stone scarps, whilst the cairn itself draws together a sense of the tumble and cluster of stones, the voids and cists. Visiting the site, I was fascinated by the individual geology of the big stones that surround the excavated cairn like teeth in a smile. Each stone holds a miniature landscape of clefts and runnels, lichen and moss. And they have an almost totemic quality; faces reaching from the past. Somehow these forms reflected the greater feeling I had at the site: people felt close, rooted and present in the stones and land.
