A rural idyll is a theme the artist keeps returning to, concerned with the concept of ‘nature’, and questioning the perceived ‘rural idyll’ of the local East Anglian landscape with which a complex and intimate relationship has developed through the practice of repeated walking, observing and listening to these places of increasing marginalisation. Here, the rural and the industrial intersect and elide; genetically engineered technologies turn fields into labs blurring the boundaries between the natural and the synthetic. It is a lonely place of disquiet which reflects a bewildered disbelief at the damage we wreak on the natural world.
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