History of the Project

The project was seeded  by Jo Clifford and Claire Pençak during a residency at Cove Park in Argyllshire in 2004, developed during a residency at Lyth Arts Centre, Wick in 2005 and expanded over an extended research period between 2006 and 2007. Each subsequent year another layer accumulates. The research and development of ‘The Crossing’ has been supported by funding from the Scottish Arts Council 2004, Hi-Arts in 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 and The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.  ‘..a small number of small twigs or branches were laid on top of the body and above these again several small sticks laid crosswise, as though to prevent the corpse from floating or from climbing out of the bog’  An account of a peat bog man find in P.V. Glob’s The Bog People.