Weighty Friend
This artwork featured in Shifting Worlds (2015). A Meadow Arts and Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust commission.
Faye Claridge was artist in residence in the Darby Houses at Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron throughout the summer of 2015. Claridge created a unique intervention on the historic Iron Bridge, the world’s first iron bridge – built across Ironbridge Gorge, with the help of fifty volunteers. The bridge was dressed in its own ‘tatter coat’, a reference to the traditions of Morris Dancers and how women’s work supported the Industrial Revolution.
The event was created with support from Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and English Heritage.
Watch the beautiful short film of the event below.
Image: Faye Claridge, Weighty Friend, October 2015. Photo: Rebecca Farkas.
About the artist
Faye Claridge
Faye Claridge exhibited in Village Green Screen Hereford, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, 2018; Village Green Screen Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, 2017; Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015; and Weighty Friend, Ironbridge, 2015.
Faye Claridge was commissioned by Meadow Arts and Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust for Shifting Worlds, Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, 2015; and Weighty Friend, Ironbridge, 2015.
Image: Faye Claridge, Weighty Friend, October 2015. Photo: Rebecca Farkas.