24 May – 12 Oct 2025
Wild Uplands
Striking new art for the moors above Haworth.
Wild Uplands was a series of new artworks created for the vast skies and expansive moorland views of Penistone Hill Country Park.
Shanaz Gulzar, Creative Director of Bradford 2025 and the curator of Wild Uplands, invited four leading artists – Monira Al Qadiri, Meherunnisa Asad with Studio Lél, Vanessa da Silva and Steve Messam – to create new artworks for Penistone Hill. Their artworks took inspiration both from this natural landscape and from our shared industrial heritage; from true stories and imagined fables; and from the history of this countryside and its potential future in light of the climate crisis. Wild Uplands also included Earth and Sky, an immersive sound walk created with Opera North that you could listen to as you explored this landscape.
The artists

99 Butterflies
Meherunnisa Asad, Studio Lél
Wild Uplands Digital
In this digital version of Wild Uplands you can learn about the artists and their work, with exclusive interviews, insights and thoughts directly from the artists as well as bespoke videos, photos and audio descriptions.
You can also listen to the compositions and poetry from the Earth & Sky soundwalk.

Earth & Sky
Earth & Sky is a new sound walk created for Penistone Hill Country Park. Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and Opera North invited composers Caterina Barbieri, Nyokabi Kariũki and Gwen Siôn to create new music and sound works inspired by this landscape. Their creations have been woven together with field recordings by Sarah Keirle and performances by the Orchestra of Opera North of music by local composer Frederick Delius into a dramatic soundscape.
Earth & Sky used state-of-the-art geolocation technology. As you walked through the landscape, what you heard was triggered by every step you took.
Explore Earth & Sky →
Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and Opera North invited composers Caterina Barbieri, Nyokabi Kariũki and Gwen Siôn to create new music and sound works inspired by this landscape. Their creations have been woven together with field recordings by Sarah Keirle and performances by the Orchestra of Opera North of music by local composer Frederick Delius into a dramatic soundscape.
Earth & Sky used state-of-the-art geolocation technology. As you walked through the landscape, what you heard was triggered by every step you took.
