Stonehenge Cursus Project 2007-2010

A collaboration between Artists & Archaeology and the Stonehenge Riverside Project.

As a resident artist on this excavation, I soon identified then began to work with archaeologists on the Stonehenge Cursus Monument.

This huge Neolithic rectangular enclosure lies between Stonehenge and Woodhenge and measures appx 3km x 100m. It is largely empty except for some sheep, cattle and crows and no one really knows what it was used for.

Curse of the Cursus is the ongoing project that has arisen from this collaboration, it uses drawing to create a primitive tribal iconography for the monument and employs the playing-out of various roles, encompassing both the indigenous protector and the obsessive and cursed academic.