Field Shelter CIC

15/06/2026

02/06/2026

First artist announced for Haltwhistle Music Festival coming to town this September - give the page a follow for more updates!

Janice Burns & Jon Doran – Live at Holy Cross Church

🗓️ Sat 5th September, 6-9:30pm (with support)

📍 Holy Cross, Haltwhistle

🎟 Completely FREE entry (tickets available via https://tinyurl.com/HMF2026)

We’re delighted to welcome Janice Burns & Jon Doran as our Saturday night headliners at Holy Cross Church.

Janice and Jon are an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came together after discovering a shared love of traditional music. Their compelling storytelling comes alive through tight vocal harmonies and sensitive interplay between mandolin, bouzouki and guitar.

With their relaxed and personable approach to performance, Janice and Jon are renowned for the warmth of their connection with audiences. From opening Stage 2 at Cambridge Folk Festival, to playing at the likes of Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Tradfest and Cecil Sharp House, the duo are highly sought after across the UK and beyond.

Following the success of their self-titled EP in 2020, Janice & Jon released their debut album, No More the Green Hills, in Autumn 2022. The album had overwhelmingly positive feedback, finding its place in the Official UK Folk Albums Chart, as well as gaining airplay on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Scotland.

**** “Clever and uncluttered musical storytelling” – SonglinesMagazine

***** “Five stars for this duo that have made an album destined for repeated listening.” – Irish Music Magazine

Spaces are limited in the church, so make sure you book early.

A big thank you also to The Vindolanda Trust for sponsoring this event!

04/05/2026

✨ Coming up in May at the Field Shelter ✨

2 FREE events...

WALK & DRAW
Resident artist Joe Richardson will lead a drawing walk from the studio to the Roman Wall on Tuesday 12th May. Booking is required for this one - there are a few spaces left, click the link for all the details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gentle-walk-draw-workshop-with-joe-richardson-tickets-1985530145113

DROP IN DAY
Future resident artist Katie Lock invites you to the studio to share your stories about the local area and make some psychedelic nature-inspired collages. No booking required, just turn up! Full details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-day-meet-the-artist-with-katie-lock-tickets-1988473698360

23/03/2026

🌞Introducing our 2026 Artists in Residence 🌞

In May we welcome Joe Richardson, a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Collaboration is a key part of how Joe’s practice operates. Joe makes work with and alongside others through participatory projects, drawing walks and socially engaged formats that prioritise accessibility and clear language. Whether the outcome is a painting, a public sculpture, a workshop or a shared artefact, the aim is the same: to make work that holds real experience and creates space for connection.

We’re thrilled that Joe will be leading a drawing walk starting at the Field Shelter on Tuesday 12th May - this is a free event for local people so if you are around please follow the link below to book your place!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gentle-walk-draw-workshop-with-joe-richardson-tickets-1985530145113?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

Thank you to Joe for being part of our residency programme this year ✨

Stay tuned to hear more about Joe and our other resident artists in 2026!

Photo 1 credit: Ives David

03/03/2026

🌱 Become a Friend of the Field Shelter 🌱

Support us and be part of the story

We’ve just launched our mailing list, Friends of the Field Shelter via the platform Substack 📝 you can subscribe for free to get updates on what we’re doing throughout the year.

You can also choose to give a small monthly donation to support our work, or a larger yearly donation, and both these options come with extras to thank you for your generosity.

Read on and subscribe: https://open.substack.com/pub/fieldshelter/p/welcome-friends-of-the-field-shelter?r=1lsdv6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

15/01/2026

✨new✨
Notes On The Gatepost

The work of returns to the Field Shelter with these two gorgeous poems.

Rachel showed two paintings here back in September as part of the first Hadrian’s Wall Art Trail, and we’re pleased this time to have her words gracing the Gatepost this cold and wet January.

Rachel writes:
“My work is founded in the landscape, flora and fauna of the North Pennine Fells. I try to reflect the transience of my surroundings through an intuitive engagement with memory and my own understanding of the natural world. I explore the notion of landscape as an environment with immense history but also uncertain stability and aim to experience it ‘in transit’, as a traveller simply passing through.”

Look back through our posts for more on the Gatepost micro-project, or take a look at https://fieldshelterarts.co.uk/notes-on-the-gatepost/

More soon on plans for 2026!

05/01/2026

A look back on 2025, our first proper year of Doing Things as Field Shelter CIC!

- We worked with over 15 artists from all over the UK, from Oxford to Derbyshire to Leeds to Hexham
- We welcomed over 100 people into our space to enjoy making and engaging with art and the landscape
- We received our first grant funding to deliver creative workshops for the local community
- We hung our first group exhibition as part of the first ever Hadrian’s Wall Art Trail

Our space has been so enriched by the ideas, conversations and art works brought to us by the artists and visitors that are shaping this tiny organisation. We thank you so much!

We’ve been taking a little break as we are adding a new member to our team in the Spring 🐣 but 2026 will be filled with activity, as we develop our programme and ideas, and welcome more artists to add their voices to the Field Shelter story.

Thank you for all your support over the last year, and don’t be a stranger!

Ed & Lydia x

With thanks to:







cameron.art


fishes


the.negatives

Haltwhistle Community Shops Fund
And many more who visited and supported us in so many ways

11/12/2025

We love it when artists come to visit ❤️

This past weekend, we were delighted when Alex and Wes, our current Gatepost artists, made the journey from Yorkshire to see their work in person and to sample the delights of Haltwhistle and the Roman Wall.



It was great to meet you both and thank you for your contribution to this little project.

Please see our last post to read about Alex & Wes’s work for the Gatepost, Meeting (Point), which is in turn part of their ongoing collaborative project, I Will Meet You Here.

If you are an artist, curator, or other creative professional, and interested in what we’re doing here, please get in contact to arrange a visit. We love showing people round our area and the conversations that emerge. We can offer discounted overnight accommodation on site if required and available.

19/11/2025

Fresh work on the Gatepost!

We’re pleased to welcome Alex Stubbs and Wes Foster with their collaborative work Meeting (Point), an a4 digital drawing using multilayered text, images, tracings, and line drawings to share and make real a living and breathing archive. The archive has been built from the materials and creations collected during participatory gatherings. The gatherings are part of the self-directed alternative learning programme ‘I will meet you here’, led by Wes and Alex.

The QR code within the drawing leads to a Google Drive folder which acts as both an
invitation to participate in a nomadic ‘I will meet you here’ gathering and an opportunity to engage with the living programme archive.

Here, there are five folders: sight, sound, feel (each of which can be contributed to), library (a collection of texts that the artists worked with), and archive (made up from materials and notes from other workshops). Passers-by are encouraged to use the prompts, artefacts, digital objects, tools, and resources in each folder to activate their walk in new and unexpected ways.

Through the archive, all of the findings in ‘I will meet you here’ will be made open and visible to the public for the first time. Thinking about the gatepost as a liminal and time-restricted/restrictive place, this will act as another, remote, iteration of the ‘I will meet you here’ workshops for the duration of Meeting (Point), and will then be archived alongside the wider programme as part of Alex & Wes’s research into our relationships with space.

You can read more about the work and visit the archive via our website - just click the 🔗 in the usual place! There you can also find out more about Notes on the Gatepost.

Thank you to and for their contribution!

19/10/2025

🪧
Now showing on the Gatepost:
Catalina Renjifo - Broken



Catalina Renjifo is a mixed-heritage Latin American artist, born in Colombia and based in Oxford. Her sculptural installations combine ceramics, drawing, textiles, print, and photography.

Her ongoing body of work centres on an asemic alphabet of her own design, a set of forms that question how forms can carry knowledge and meaning. Clay, a material linked to both vessels and early writing, suggests that letters too are containers for meaning: empty yet full of possibility.

Broken is one of a series of clay tablets inscribed with these symbols. Its composition suggests the shape of a letter, an address, a message, a signature, rendered entirely through form. Shown near Hadrian’s Wall, the work invites reflection on our human ancestors and what might be left of their lost languages.

Thank you Catalina for contributing your work to the Notes on the Gatepost project!

You can scroll one post back on our profile to find out more about the project, or visit our website to see more info and previous artists 🌞