The Weather Works were developed in the Lake District between 2014 and 2015. They place weather at the centre of experience to re-think romantic notions of the picturesque that we so often associate with this landscape. Across video installation and photography the work responds to shifting atmospheric conditions—rain, saturation, pressure and noise—as active forces that shape how we see, feel and move through the world.

Instead of treating landscape as something fixed or purely visual, the work shifts its attention to what lies beneath the surface: histories of extraction, industry and deep geological time. Weather runs through these different layers, not as backdrop, but as both material and interruption—dissolving the idea of a stable, knowable landscape.

Increasing rainfall in North West England, linked to climate change, becomes a key driver within the work. In a disused mine, sound recordings captured water entering darkness—dripping, rushing, resonating through stone. These recordings form a key turning point in the project, opening it out into wider, cross-disciplinary work beyond Cumbria. Across its development, The Weather Works asks what it means to experience landscape through weather itself: unstable, shifting and alive.

The weather works were developed as part of a commission by the Cumbria Museum Consortium funded by Arts Council England and English Heritage, Newcastle University, Goldsmith’s University and exhibited at Abbot Hall, Tullie House, Dove Cottage in 2015.

For links to videos please contact uta.kogelsberger@ncl.ac.uk