DAWN HURTON — D A W N H U R T O N

It does not reconstruct a complete history or present a collection of original historical artefacts. Instead, sculpture, text, material and museum language are brought together to consider how knowledge survives - and what may disappear when it falls outside the official record.

ABOUT THE HOARDE

VISIT

Enter the Hoarde through timed public visits, group visits and a limited programme of artist-led encounters.

THE HOARDE

Encounter the sculptures, fragment texts, Public Registers, Keeper's Room and moving image that form the museum.

CURRENT HOLDINGS

FROM THE MUSEUM

Publications, printed matter and artist editions carry the work beyond the museum rooms.

THE KEEPER

The Hoarde is received, recorded and maintained by its Keeper.

VISITING INFORMATION

CURRENT HOLDINGS

VIEW PUBLICATIONS AND EDITIONS

MEET THE KEEPER

WHAT THE PLACE STILL KNOWS

The Hoarde grew from walking the same fell paths, reading a preacher’s diary, emigrant letters and research papers on economic and social change, studying mining maps, old photographs and images of the workings beneath the ground.

It came through rakes, walls and sheep smoots; through hoar frost, water, grass and stone; through the knowledge carried by T’Owd Man and the labour the records barely name.

Rag, fibre, wool, earth pigment and barytes brought another kind of knowledge. The materials warped, cracked, stained and resisted.

I made objects and opened Registers.
I did not fill the gaps. I kept them in view.

Then the museum slowly appeared.

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