From the News & Star:
A Carlisle artist has launched an exhibition aimed at lifting the 500-year-old “curse” laid on the city.
Lindsay McWilliams, 21, of Scotch Street, has explored the myth surrounding the cursing stone installed at Tullie House Museum in 2001.
Blamed for misfortunes including the 2005 Carlisle floods, it is inscribed with a curse from a 16th-century Archbishop of Glasgow.
The new exhibition, called Uncursed, was produced as part of Lindsay’s final project for her degree in photography at the University of Cumbria.
She said: “I wanted to do something I really cared about for my last major project, so I was doing some research into the City of Culture bid. One of the things that came up was the way people like to blame everything on the cursing stone.
“A lot of the cultural venues in Carlisle have fallen into disrepair or aren’t being used properly, so I thought I could do something around that.”
Her photographs of Carlisle cultural landmarks were all taken at around five o’clock in the morning, to keep light levels consistently low. Behind each one, she has layered an image of words from the cursing stone, altered to give them the opposite meaning.
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