Prospects

Prospects is a body of intimate landscapes made in Britain. By focussing on the natural British topography, we cannot view it as detached from the historical and contemporary context of our international political climate. Nature and politics have long been entwined and embedded in the cultural identity and visual vernacular of Britain.

We live in a time at which Britain has taken an unpredictable political step. Beliefs and values have become swollen and embroiled, and our natural landscape continues to be endangered. Ancient woodlands have been depleted, and their once vast swathes now exist in fragments. Despite this, these fragments of nature prevail and remain defiant, offering some element of beauty and nourishment in our lives, which is perhaps more important now than ever.

The images in Prospects can feel quiet, magisterial or haunting, and within their sonorous tone runs a faint undercurrent of discord. Their making certainly involved a form of escapism. They seek to depict familiar British landscapes with a sense of the precariousness and mystery that our future holds.