EDWARD CHELL : SOFT ESTATE

6 Dec 2013-23 Feb 2014

Overview

Soft Estate is a term used by the Highways Agency to describe the natural habitats that line our motorways and trunk roads. These verges offer a genuine refuge for wildlife and a modern form of wilderness in the midst of intense urbanisation and agro -chemical farming. Artists investigate these areas as physical and metaphorical spaces and as reflectors of the complex and changing relationships between travel, environment and landscape imagery within contemporary British culture.