A BRADFORD artist has created an immersive exhibition inspired by the sounds, sights and smells of the moors and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

‘The Eternal Rocks Beneath’, curated by illustrator Rosie McAndrew, has opened a gateway between the natural and supernatural using two art spaces.

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Hosted at the South Square Gallery in Thornton, McAndrew has brought the nearby moorlands inside using leafy hanging fixtures made out of black tea and turmeric, quotes from the famous novel on naturally died fabrics and avocado stones and a stunning film shot on the moors.

Enter the ghostly setting of Wuthering Heights where - be warned - there may be the ghost of Cathy Earnshaw, the novel's main character.

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Scrawled in UV paint and on delicate risographs, visitors can read poignant quotes about heaven and the beauty and brutality of the natural world.

Rows of flowers dangle from the ceiling along with green shattered glass from the window broken by the ghoul of Wuthering Heights.

The artist, who grew up in Eccleshill, said: "I made leaves because I want it to be like a breeze going through the room.

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"It's also a full sensory experience. There's a diffuser that's going to be putting out what they call petrichol oil - it smells like the grass after rain.

"The connection that Cathy has to the moors, I want you to have that feeling and the love for nature around."

"I didn't want to make a bunch of things out of plastic that I was never going to use again. That would be damaging to the environment and it's really important that I'm not damaging something I'm meant to be celebrating" - Rosie McAndrew

The artist's work often revolves around the intersection between music, film, pop culture and literature.

Wuthering Heights is a book close to the artist's heart who first read it as a child and later studied it during A Levels.

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The classic novel Wuthering Heights follows the turbulent relationship between Heathcliff, an orphan who is taken home to Wuthering Heights on impulse, and Catherine Earnshaw, a girl whose mother died delivering her and who becomes Heathcliff's companion.

The supernatural room, lit up by UV rays, will also feature ghost stories to tie in with the spooky theme for Halloween.

The artist said: "I hope it reads as a celebration of all I love about the book.

"All of the Brontes wrote about their environment. There's a quote in the moors room from Charlotte which says the book is a product of the Moors because Emily herself was as well. The book itself, I think she described it as being as 'knotty as a root of heath' and the book itself is very moor like.

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"I think it wouldn't have been right to not include as much nature as possible. The environment around here is beautiful.

"I did initially struggle with it."

The character of Cathy Earnshaw associates her identity, happiness and romantic relationships with the wild intensity of the surrounding moors.

She describes it as a place where she feels truly able to be ‘half-savage and hardy, and free’.

Preferring it to heaven, she chooses to spend her afterlife wandering there.

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In the book, once her ghost breaks through the physical and metaphorical barrier of the window, she is able to achieve what she couldn’t in her lifetime: eternity bound together with Heathcliff on the moors, away from societal restriction.

The turbulent nature of the Yorkshire moors often inspired the Brontë sisters writing, most explicitly in ‘Wuthering Heights’, whose name literally describes it.

McAndrew hopes the viewer will become the ghost of Cathy Earnshaw as they walk through the spaces.

As much as possible of the artwork was made using recycled or eco-friendly materials.

Explaining her choices of material, McAndrew said: "That was really important to me, I didn't want to make a bunch of things out of plastic that I was never going to use again.

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"That would be damaging to the environment and it's really important that I'm not damaging something I'm meant to be celebrating.

"The paint for this mural is recycled. I've had to be really creative with how to do this on a budget."

The whole exhibition is shaped around the novel but in particular a theme of romance not only with humans, but Yorkshire's nature itself.

To quote Emily Bronte: "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: Time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary."

‘The Eternal Rocks Beneath’ will launch on Friday, October 4 - 6pm-9pm - with glow in the dark cocktails and a clothes swap - tying in with our relationship with nature.

In her first gallery exhibition funded by Arts Council England, Rosie's displays will run until October 27 at South Square Centre in Thornton.