Common Ground, Private Space Christine Percy and Liz Harrison

28 Apr-13 May 2018

Overview

Landscape contains multi-layered contexts relating to both the urban the rural and the bits in between, which have become, in recent years, a focus for the language of contemporary art and literature. It is difficult to view, as it existed in the past, as a sublime image. No longer offering the prospect of pastoral innocence, the industrial/technological landscape leaves its mark everywhere as scattered detritus, not only as physical leftovers but also changing the order and behaviour of the natural world. These paradoxical spaces, neither here nor there, offer intimate suggestions of human presence, where attempts have been made to use a space, but left abandoned. Bleak amalgamations of fragments of architectural structures expose and intensify the barrenness of an increasingly peripheral landscape.