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.
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.
By CLICKING/TOUCHING on an individual thumbnail it will open up a new page – this gives details about the artist, some artists 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 ! )
The image in the “new page” can also be CLICKED – to show a larger size version of the artwork.
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
Aims and Objectives of “The Artwork Project” –
By building up a collection of pictures of the tower and walls, and commissioning artists to create new pictures using the tower and walls as their inspiration we are building up a collection of drawings, paintings and engravings about the tower and the walls. We have commissioned local artists to use the tower and walls as a basis for new work they produce. The commissioned local artists have undertaken studies of the tower, or created works inspired by it, and also to make individual studies of stones on the walls which catch their attention. This also echoes the attention to individual stones in the geology strand of our work, part of a general aim to encourage people to engage with the walls in a different way.
This project has been part financed by a grant and special donations.
LINKS to the individual NOTES on each Artwork / Image –
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 Postern Tower doorway
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 introductory notes about each artwork / image followed by a table.
The aim is to make FoYW’s artworks more useful by putting an image of each on the FoYW website with information about them.
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 a name, a title, artist and date for the work, followed by brief notes from the artits and details of how to contact them.
Where the work was not commissioned by FoYW, there are no artist’s notes but there are some notes about the artist.
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 / image stored on the FOYW shared drive –
1 Janine Baldwin – Flowers at Fishergate Postern Tower.jpg
2 Adrienne French – Walls of York – mysterious boundaries.jpg
3 Elliot Harrison – Sunny Day at Fishergate Postern Tower.jpg
4 Elliot Harrison – Wild flowers at Fishergate Postern Tower.jpg
5 Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – Postern Tower.jpg
6 Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – On the Walls.jpg
7 Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – Micklegate Bar.jpg
8 Freya Horsley – a study in Movement and Permanence – by Bootham Bar.jpg
9 Kate Pettit – Stone Light – Fishergate Postern Tower.jpg
10 Jo Rodwell – The buzz around Piccadilly and Postern Tower Linocut.jpg
11 Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – the Walls at Fishergate Postern Tower.jpg
12 Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – along the Walls near the Postern Tower.jpg
13 Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – Postern Arch and the Tower.jpg
14 Jo Rodwell – Experimental sketches – Fishergate Postern Tower doorway.jpg
15 Dianne Turner – Fishergate Postern Tower.jpg
16 Justine Warner – Postern Tower – creative textile/embroidery.jpg
17 Janine Baldwin – Stone Study – sedimental layers.jpg
18 Fran Brammer – weathered Walls stone – machine embroidery.jpg
19 Donna Maria Taylor – an individual stone study.jpg
20 Dianne Turner – an individual stone study.jpg
21 William Chapman – Approaching York Minster 1879.jpg
22 Thomas Dudley – Walmgate Bar York 1879.jpg
23 Thomas Dudley – Micklegate Bar York 1879.jpg
24 Thomas Dudley – Bootham Bar York 1880.jpg
25 Thomas Dudley – Monk Bar York 1879.jpg
26 Andres Jaroslavsky – the Walls of York – a panorama drawing.jpg
27 Edwin Ridsdale Tate – Fishergate Postern Tower 1910.pjg
28 Edwin Risdale Tate – Fishergate Postern Tower internal roof 1910.jpg
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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Published / Updated 23rd February 2026 RELEASE 1d Alan Fleming
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