MONIRA AL QADIRI
WILD UPLANDS

PENISTONE HILL COUNTRY PARK, BRADFORD, UK
24 MAY – 12 OCTOBER 2025

WILD UPLANDS is a series of new artworks created for the vast skies and expansive moorland views of Penistone Hill Country Park.

© Image by David Lindsay

Shanaz Gulzar, Creative Director of Bradford 2025 and the curator of WILD UPLANDS, has 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.

© Image by David Lindsay

Their artworks take 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 includes Earth and Sky, an immersive sound walk created with Opera North that you can listen to as you explore this landscape.

© Image by David Lindsay

© Image by Jon Super

There will be a programme of workshops, tours and special events for all ages inspired by WILD UPLANDS throughout the summer.

FEATURED ARTIST

MONIRA AL QADIRI
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. Spanning sculpture, installation, film, and performance, Al Qadiri’s multifaceted practice is based on research into the cultural histories of the Gulf region. Her interpretation of the Gulf’s so-called “petro-culture” is manifested through speculative scenarios that take inspiration from science fiction, autobiography, traditional practices, and pop culture, resulting in uncanny and covertly subversive works that destabilize mythologies of statecraft and modernization as well as traditional notions of gender. Tracing the delicate ecologies threate...
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