“Radioactive Art”, which was first broadcast on radio 4 Thursday 2nd March, ends in an interview with Ele Carpenter standing in a stone circle at the outskirts of the Sellafield Nuclear reprocessing facility in Cumbria. This inspired me to make a journey over to Cumbria to seek out this site and make some work there.

The weather was glorious, the action pictured above resulted in serious sunburn! As expected, we attracted the attention of the Nuclear Defence Constabulary who were very polite and extremely thorough in their background checks. It is an interesting test of communication skills explaining why it is important for to you to carry a handmade loom across the fields to a stone circle in order to weave recycled copper wire in the sight of Sellafield……