A grieving sheep calls for her lamb and brings me to tears.
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Hide and Hook

2012

Pencil and Ink on Somerset Paper, 50cm x 50cm
Pencil and Ink on Somerset Paper, 50cm x 50cm

Hide and Hook was commissioned for the Force of Nature exhibition at Millennium Galleries, Sheffield. The show  brought together a host of historical and contemporary work, using the evolution of John Ruskin’s ideas on how to best capture the truth and examine how artists have adopted different approaches to portray the landscape.

Hide shows the skin of a bullock, stripped after slaughter. The bill hook was my granddad’s hedging tool. Both items aimed to reveal the violent yet beautiful truth at the heart of farming.

 

 

Pencil and Ink on Somerset Paper
Each 50cm x 50cm

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