The Fragmented Landscape
The Fragmented Landscape publication, was conceived to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Ruup & Form (25th April – 24th May 2025).
It is an opportunity to bring together the exhibiting artists expanded research and writing into conversation with each other, beyond the physical works of the exhibition.
Conversations and storytelling are integral parts of my practice. The Fragmented Landscape exhibition and this accompanying publication are a space to have conversations with other artists about plants, landscape and how we each make art in varying circumstances.
Through inviting Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Rosanna Martin, Inês Neto dos Santos, Sop and Bethan Lloyd Worthington into conversation I hope to bring a richness beyond my own interpretation of landscape; how do they encounter and interrogate landscapes and connected themes of plants, community, care, access, working with and engaging others, tactility and materiality, in ways that I am not? What can I learn and see differently by sharing in their practices?
The texts each artist has contributed weave threads and extend tendrils to each other’s thinking. Moving through this publication I catch upon ideas and themes that slip and flow across the pages…
….gestures, conversations, call to action, bodies, containers, working with what we have… (Inês)
what we carry with us, holding, caring, nourishing, feeding… (Rosanna)
… devotion, gardens, animacy, multiplicity… (Johanna)
(Sop) desire, rest, the landscape finding you, light…
… brilliance, luminosity, inaccessible landscapes, longing (Bethan)
… memory, noticing, time, translation… (me)
fingernails, making a mark, a stitch, a fold, a poke, a glimpse, a pull
hearing, not hearing, digesting, waiting, communing, love…
breaking soil, breaking bread… (together)
Together our work relates and collides to form a fragmented landscape.