







HOMELANDS began with research into farming/rural practices in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. In particular it focused on how farmers and countryside specialists work in, on and with the land. And how we imaginatively transfer, draw up, celebrate, distil and repurpose it for the healing and nourishment of ourselves and others.
Alongside many interviews, I undertook detailed research at national galleries and museum held a discussion at Metal Peterborough which brought together people, around homemade food, from distinct and diverse disciplines to consider emerging themes. This event also showcased work made as a distillation of my findings. Culminating in an evening of reflection on making, embedded lives and how identities and values form in complex and layered ways as a result.
HOMELANDS consists of an series of photographs taken at multiple sites and homes, an unlimited edition doublesided screen print on A1 newsprint which I gifted to those who attended the talk, and 18 raw clay unfired and dried hard thumbs pots – It’s easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something, than there was something before there was nothing – each with their own hawthorn ring stand and scratched in overheard, found and bastardised quotes:
Thank you to:
Metal Peterborough
Bowman Pumpkins
Georgina Barney – Artist
Eric Freeman – Butcher
Rachel Shoon – Farmer/Reiki master
Tim Cousins – Forester
Patrick Ryan – Woodturner
Genever family – Farmers
Patrick Goldsworthy – Farmer
Rose Sawkins – Writer/ Theatre maker
Liz Genever – Consultant and Farmer
Jane Naylor – self-taught Florist
Denis Smith – apple grafter
Peter Pope – Caretaker /self-taught Artist
Tony Shepard – Builder/Artist
Patrick Joseph Ryan – Wood turner