About Quarry Arts

Quarry Arts has now reached the end of its tenure. We used the focus of quarries to engage with communities for creative and performing arts inspiration.

Originally we started out in 2003 as "Yorkshire Quarry Arts" which was established at the University of Leeds. Appreciation of quarries has been underpinned by understanding of the geology of the quarried landscape and throughout our projects geologists have provided insight into the quarries that have inspired our creative activities.

Excellent example of collaborations can be seen in the YQA publications The Naked Quarry and Creative Children and at the Brantwood Musical Stones Exhibition in Coniston, The Coldstones Cut and the Lithophones at Clitheroe Castle Museum and Horton-in-Ribblesdale Station.

We formed collaborative partnerships with MIRO, Clitheroe Castle Museum, Lancashire Education Services, the Yorkshire Dales National Parks Authority, Purple Patch Arts, Skipton Camerata, the Ingleborough Dales Landscape Partnership and Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society as well as with a number of schools in Lancashire and the Yorkshire Dales.