Tipping Point

Found picture frame, towel fabric cut-off with acrylic paints and water colours, recycled oil landscape painting on canvas covered in oil bar and rhubarb and beetroot inks, broken canvas stretchers bars, unravelled canvas, Sitka Spruce bark fragments, 160x190x60cm.​

2023.​

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'Tipping point' is about deconstructing our image of landscape, of what we consider natural or wild. Digging deeper beyond the surface, beyond the superficial image, into land management, land ownership, shifting baselines – an image of destruction and depletion remains, ecosystems hanging by a thread or at a tipping point . Referencing art historian W.J.Mitchell’s idea of landscape as a dynamic medium of exchange between nature and culture, as both a frame and what a frame contains, the contents of the landscape image here have slipped out of the frame and have spilled onto the floor, not wanting or being able to be confined into a neat format anymore.