CLASSIFIER
Liane Lang, former artist in residence with the Wirksworth Festival, was supported by the Royal Academy George Frampton Fund 2024 to create a public sculpture. The resulting work will be launched September 6th, 3-5pm at the National Stone Centre in Wirksworth. All welcome.
Closely connected to the history of the Stone Centre and the town of Wirksworth Classifier is a repurposed Quarry Cone Section, kindly donated by Longcliffe Quarries. The cone would once have selected limestone by size and been part of a much larger piece of equipment. Over several months Liane took photographs in the local area, both above and below ground and applied the images to the steel surface. The work brings together many types and uses of stone, from the neolithic arm chair at Harboro Rocks to the ancient quarries on Stanton Moor, to tunnels deep below ground, where limestone, Blue John and lead ore was extracted by generations of people living in Derbyshire.
Photo: Kate Bellis
