Quarry Arts Projects

QA has, in collaboration with other organisations, made a number of proposals for funding.

Within the Ingleborough Dales Landscape Partnership to be funded by HLF.

  • 2016 Musical Rocks
  • 2015 - 2017 Quarry Tales: Ingleborough Dales

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority Sustainable Development Fund. Resubmission.

  • 2015 Mapping Resonant Rocks

Previous Projects

2015 Lithophone: the Sound of the Sea that was (led by YDNPA)

Funded by the Arts Council and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority


2014 - 2016 Quarry Tales: Clitheroe (in collaboration with MIRO)

Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund: Our Heritage


2013 - 2014 Lithophone for Clitheroe Castle Museum

Funded by Lancashire County Council


2008 - 2009 Ruskin Rocks Pilot Project

2009 - 2011 Ruskin Rocks

Funded by Natural England through Defra’s Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund


2007 - 2008 Yorkshire Quarry Arts: Threshfield Quarry Development Project

2008 - 2009 Threshfield Quarry Community Project

Funded by MIST by MIRO through Defra’s Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund


2007 - 2008 Yorkshire Quarry Arts: Changing Public Perceptions

2004 - 2007 Yorkshire Quarry Arts: Public Participation

2003 - 2004 Yorkshire Quarry Arts: Feasibility Study

Funded by MIST by MIRO through Defra’s Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund


Information can be found on the MIST and Natural England websites:

www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/574/rock_music_from_the_cumbrian_hills
www.ruskinrocks.org.uk
www.quarrytales.org.uk