A NEW installation by Aberdeenshire artist Ingrid Stephenson will go on display as the next exhibition at the Gallery on the Green in Settle.

Titled ARCHAOS II, the exhibition is about the evolutionary process, exploring creation and decay.

It draws on Ingrid’s experience as the recording artist at archaeological digs.

The exhibition runs for two months from this Sunday until September 8.

The first weekend forms part of the Three Peaks Art Trail, featuring artists at 30 different locations across an area from Settle to Ingleton.

Ingrid Stephenson was born in the north of Scotland and is half-Dutch.

Though her degree was in Fine Art she was always fascinated by archaeology, and has regularly been employed at digs all over Scotland and England.

Ingrid said: “My subject-matter tends to be bleak because my materials include dead things, bone, metals, and things in the process of decaying.

“Sometimes there is a dark humour in decay. I like to look forensically at a found object and identify what processes it has undergone; whether it has been hammered or worn. I like to see how things degrade.”

The exhibition ARCHAOS II, at the former BT phone box, which is thought to be one of the world’s smallest art galleries, follows on from a successful show at the renowned Bingley Gallery and forms stage two of a tour introducing Ingrid’s work to England for the first time.