Tumbling Stones, Wiggly Tin – Hilary Grisewood

Tumbling Stones, Wiggly Tin is an exhibition by Hilary Grisewood that explores and celebrates the vernacular architecture of the Yorkshire Dales, particularly its dilapidated stone barns and corrugated iron buildings affectionately known as “wiggly tin.” Inspired by the landscape, buildings, and ever-changing light, Grisewood reflects on how these structures carry the stories of past generations while gradually changing or disappearing.

Largely self-taught, Grisewood has painted and drawn since childhood, but it was after moving to the Dales that she was able to fully develop her practice. Her work is rooted in a longstanding fascination with archaeology and a desire to connect physically and emotionally with the past.

Working primarily in a figurative manner, drawing underpins her practice, with watercolours, acrylics, inks, and pastel used to build layers of texture and detail. Through this process, Grisewood explores themes of history, memory, and the passage of time, balancing careful observation with an emotional response to an austere yet beautiful, and increasingly vanishing, world.