Performance in Landscape

I sometimes make performance work which forms through direct contact with the natural environment.  Working on a farm  with rewilding at its core, I respond to what I find rather than staging elaborate interventions.  These gestures are often minimal: pressing, holding, balancing, or repeating simple actions.   There is a tension in the work between control and surrender, intention and accident. Moments of play, awkwardness and sometimes humour sit alongside a more focused, bodily awareness.  I’m not trying to represent the landscape, but to enter into it briefly, to test how the body can sit within it, resist it, or become entangled with it.  These encounters later reappear in the paintings as decisions shaped by feeling, memory and bodily experience   This work, is a continuation from similar work along a hedgebank last summer.  

Becoming Canopy,  April 2026

Moss Rest, April 2026

Hole 1, April 2026

​Hello, this is your Mother.  Are you coming home?   Performance still, April 2026