Artwork Project – Gallery

The Friends of York Walls

 Artwork Project

Introduction –

Over the past three years the Friends of York Walls have been commissioning local artists to produce an example of their work using the City Walls and Fishergate Postern Tower as their creative inspiration.  We have also commissioned some artists to do studies of individual stones on the walls, highlighting the fact their surfaces have their own intrinsic interest.

In addition, we have also bought examples of works by artists from the past and present.

Our aim is to provide people with the experience of seeing creative responses to the walls, both through this gallery of the images on our website, and through installing the originals in Fishergate Postern Tower. This is a building on the walls which we open to the public as a heritage venue, to maximise public access, and the exhibition is to enhance the visitor experience within the building.

We are also happy to show the work of the artists to a wide public. 

This project has been part financed by special events and donations.

Artwork Image Gallery –

The following gallery of images shows a thumbnail of each of the artworks, and is split into three sections – 1)  Original commissioned works using the walls as inspiration;  2)  Studies inspired by individual stones on the walls;  3)  Historical and contemporary non-commissioned original works.

CLICK/TOUCH  an individual thumbnail to open up a new page – this gives details about the artist, some artist’s notes, how to contact them,
some FOYW notes on the subject of the artwork, and notes on the copyright situation.   (Please use the “Continue reading” link)
  

CLICK/TOUCH the image on the “new page” to show a larger image

GALLERY GROUP  1 to 16 = Original Artists Commissions – in alphabetical order by artist. 

GALLERY GROUP  17 to 20 = Original Artists Commissions: Individual Stone Studies – in alphabetical order by artist.

GALLERY GROUP  21 to 28 = Historical & contemporary non-commissioned original works – in alphabetical order by artist. 

NOTE that all digital images have been obtained by photographing the original artwork – so the digital images will be slightly different in colour, contrast, tone and hue – subject to the camera settings, editing software, display screen size and colour matching, or printer setting.
Images are best viewed on a larger screen – i.e. tablet / laptop / PC

LINKS to the individual NOTES on each Artwork / Image –

The image in the “new page” can be CLICKED – to show a larger size version of the artwork.

 1   Janine Baldwin – Flowers at Fishergate Postern Tower
 2   Adrienne French – Walls of York – mysterious boundaries
 3   Elliot Harrison – Sunny Day at Fishergate Postern Tower
 4   Elliot Harrison – Wild flowers at Fishergate Postern Tower
 5   Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – Postern Tower
 6   Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – On the Walls
 7   Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – Micklegate Bar
 8   Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – by Bootham Bar
 9   Kate Pettit – Stone Light – Fishergate Postern Tower
10  Jo Rodwell – The buzz around Piccadilly and Postern Tower Linocut
11  Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – the Walls at Fishergate Postern Tower
12  Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – along the Walls near the Postern Tower
13  Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – Postern Arch and the Tower
14  Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – Fishergate Tower Postern Arch
15  Dianne Turner – Fishergate Postern Tower
16  Justine Warner – Postern Tower – creative textile/embroidery
17  Janine Baldwin – Stone Study – sedimental layers
18  Fran Brammer – weathered Walls stone – machine embroidery
19  Donna Maria Taylor – an individual stone study
20  Dianne Turner – an individual stone study
21  William Chapman – Approaching York Minster 1879
22  Thomas Dudley – Walmgate Bar York 1879
23  Thomas Dudley – Micklegate Bar York 1879
24  Thomas Dudley – Bootham Bar York 1880
25  Thomas Dudley – Monk Bar York 1879
26  Andres Jaroslavsky – the Walls of York – a panorama drawing
27  Edwin Ridsdale Tate – Fishergate Postern Tower 1910
28  Edwin Risdale Tate – Fishergate Postern Tower internal roof 1910

 

ARTWORK CATALOGUE document –

The “Artwork Catalogue” document can be viewed and downloaded  HERE.  It contains the same information which can be accessed through the gallery, but is presented in a more concentrated way, in a singe table.
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The table has a full page and three columns for each artwork. The first column has consecutive reference numbers; the second column has an image of the work followed by brief, factual FoYW notes on what is shown in it, followed by a description of how the image may be used [i.e. its copyright situation]; the third column has the name of the artist, the title of the work, its date and sometimes its medium, followed by brief notes from the artist and details of how to contact them.
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Where the work was not commissioned by FoYW, there are no artist’s notes but there are some notes about the artist.
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Each “FoYW note” aims to give facts of interest to those looking at that particular artwork, so may repeat wording used for other artworks.

 

LINKS to artwork images stored on the FOYW shared drive –

All of the artwork images can also be viewed via the following link  HERE

COPYRIGHT and CREDITS –

The individual artists are as listed (in alphabetical order); artwork copyright remains with the artist, but use of the image is as detailed in the individual notes.  All information on this website is copyright to FOYW.

Project Management and Details – by Bill Hill (FOYW); Notes and Cataloguing – by Bill Hill (FOYW) and Simon Mattam (FOYW); Website Pages and Layout – by Alan Fleming (FOYW).

 

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Republished / Updated 11th May 2026  RELEASE 2b     Alan Fleming

Any Comments, Feedback or Problems  – please email   websitefeedback@yorkwalls.org.uk

 

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