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TYPES OF WORK WITHIN THE SHEEPFOLDS PROJECT

There are six distinct themes within the overall Sheepfolds collection:

1 The rebuilding or restoring of existing, derelict or former folds, eg Jack's Fold at Barbondale, Megan's Fold in Bretherdale, Red Mire Farm Fold at Mungrisdale (some examples are described in Goldsworthy,A 'Sheepfolds').

2 BOULDER FOLDS ETC.
The sixteen folds enclosing large boulders on the Fellfoot Road at Casterton; the two Tree Stone folds at Underbarrow; the Field Boulder fold at Mungrisdale, where a fold is hidden inside boulders; (some examples are described in Goldsworthy,A 'Sheepfolds').

3 PINFOLD CONE FOLDS
The construction of individual stone cones enclosed by folds, on the site of, or in disused pinfolds in villages around Kirkby Stephen relating to the Nine Standards on Hartley Fell.

4 DROVE ARCH FOLDS
The restoration of
eleven folds that temporarily housed the Drove Arch, a sandstone arch that was erected and dismantled at twenty three sites along the route of an old drove road through Cumbria between Dumfriesshire and Yorkshire. (Described in the book ‘Arch’ by Andy Goldsworthy and David Craig – now out of print). The Drove Arch is now permanently housed in a stone hut near Thornton in Lonsdale alongside a restored sheepfold called Toby’s fold. This was achieved in partnership with the Craven District Council and the Yorkshire Dales Millennium trust.

5 EPHEMERAL WORKS
The ephemeral work created by Andy Goldsworthy and sited in ruined folds along the route of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's walk around the Lake District. (1) These pieces were made over an extended period covering the four seasons and Andy Goldsworthy's photographs of them will be shown in a future exhibition. He also used an existing sheepfold for his Snowball fold at Dalton-in-Furness.

6 TOUCHSTONE FOLDS
A series of folds with artworks built into the fold's wall, rich in texture and using slate and pebbles as in earlier stone works (these types of work are described in Goldsworthy,A 'Stone').

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