Parlour, Low Parkamoor
Grizedale Arts, Cumbria
2005-2008
List of artworks
Low Parkamoor events (from top)
Open house week, 2005 (photo Polly Braden). Live stew cooking event for Supersocial, Liverpool Biennial 2006. Writer's desk shown in Virtual Grizedale exhibition, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial 2006. Photgraphy from Thinking Space for the North at Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Switzerland, 2007.
The parlour interior at Low Parkamoor farmhouse has been created by Bryan and Laura Davies with
Dan Robinson and includes bespoke designed and hand printed curtain fabric, a handmade bureau and shelving units with a fresco. The remote and previously disused farmhouse neighbours Ruskin's former estate on the fells above Lake Coniston in the Lake District and is leased from the National Trust by Grizedale Arts. It provides additional accommodation for artists and visitors and is equipped with pre-industrial facilities.
The project began in 2005 by Dan Robinson and Bryan Davies with the promotion of Thinking Space for the North (an identity for Low Parkamoor) through exhibitions and live events, bringing outcomes of local consultation on future usage, an open house week, and immediate renovation of essential services. Phase two is the development of the parlour interior by the artists, which will be added to by visitors over time.