I was really pleased to be selected for the Jean Harrison Commission at the The Museum of North Craven Life at The Folly in Settle, North Yorkshire. Jean was a Settle-based poet and author who died in 2020 and her extensive contemporary poetry library is now housed at The Folly.
Jean's work spanned many themes from sci-fi and dystopia, to families, place and space. Her work explored what it means to be a person in a changing environment, whether that environment is a far-flung distant future, a small town in the Yorkshire Dales or Ghana where Jean worked as a teacher for much of her life.
The commission is funded by Arts Council England. I will create a new work in response to some of Jean's writing for display later this year.