Sophie
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A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
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A Rural Idyll Selected Work

The rural landscape of East Anglia draws me into its eerie, fragile, alluring world sharply focusing the unresolved and contentious relationship with have with nature. These works question the concept and meaning of ‘nature’ and ‘rural’ today. 

Through the practice of walking, observing and listening, I explore places of increasing marginalisation, where the rural and the industrial intersect and elide; where genetically engineered technologies turn fields into labs blurring the boundaries between the natural and the synthetic. This is a lonely place of disquiet which reflects my bewildered disbelief at the damage we wreak on the natural world.

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