The Fells with Iron Ribbons has been produced through a series of workshop sessions led by Ashley Holmes encouraging collaboration and discussion around contemporary forms of storytelling. Together, the participants sought to learn about approaches of working with sound, field recordings & archiving.

The group of young people responded to a series of questions: how do we listen to things today? Where is it stored? How can we think about making reference to landmarks through sound? They have also been investigating the divide between urban or industrial space and the natural landscape, as well as local dialects, accents and the contemporary mythology of Cumbria & the West Coast.

The piece is accompanied by photographs produced by the young people during the project.