AN international heritage project is creating artworks to explore perceptions of Hadrian's Wall, as part of the Hadrian’s Wall 1900 Festival.

Over the last seven months, artist Karen MacDougall has ran the arts and heritage project Frontier Voices, working with community groups, schools, museum visitors, international partners and museum staff to create artworks exploring perceptions of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site and landscape.

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From December 1 until January 31, artworks will be displayed at The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre in Northumberland National Park, near Haltwhistle. 

Frontier Voices is a Wall-wide project involving all main Roman attractions across Hadrian’s Wall and northern frontier.

Poetry, banners, embossed metal foil art, installations and felted vessels express participants' feelings about themselves as Frontier Voices and what the Wall means to them.

Transnational participation has been an innovative part of the project, the first time an arts project included communities across the World Heritage of the Roman Frontiers.

Two communities from the Roman frontier in the Netherlands and two from the Roman frontiers in Germany (from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg) participated in the project. Creative works produced by them are part of the exhibition at The Sill.

Karen commented: "Frontier Voices is an amazing project. It has run since May in 11 locations in the UK and in four locations in Europe that are also on Roman Frontiers.

"We have been inspired by our past and see how this affects our present – visitors and residents along Hadrian’s Wall, European borders and climate change perhaps the most pressing as we create and debate art. Thank you to everyone who has taken part, you have all been fantastic."