18 Walks across Kirklees
Liadin Cooke 2022

When I was commissioned by Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire to make a work in response to the Covid pandemic, I asked people from the locality to come forward with information of where they walked. The main body of work for the commission was the jacquard tapestry ‘I Learned how to be a Crow and a Pigeon’, but I also made this series of gouache works on paper. ‘18 Walks in Kirklees’ shows the places where the participants walked and the marks made by generations of people on the landscape. Each of these works is a space where life outdoors was encountered during the Covid lockdowns, all of them gave some release in those early difficult, puzzling days – they are part of where we live in Huddersfield.