/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/

This show examines landscape as an extension of the body. Taking the ancient monuments of Britain as subject, the artworks included in this exhibition seek to renew our enchantment with the landscape through performative interactions.

Coral Shaw Jackson’s approach has been informed by W. J. T. Mitchell’s proposal that landscape is better understood as a verb: ‘to landscape’. Seeking bodily activities through which a rich connection with landscape could be made, she came across the waning folkloric tradition of Morris dancing. The artist performed a solitary Morris dance amid the stones at Arbor Low Stone Circle. This action takes and employs landscape as the ground to which her artistic analysis of historical objects and landmarks is applied.

/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/ presents again this performance in conversation with an archive of related happenings through solar-plate intaglio, cyanotype, and other printmaking techniques. These documents of anterior landscape interactions aspire to encourage viewers to pursue future landscape encounters of their own.