My work evolves through close consideration of landscape histories, contexts and images which intrigue me not only as entities through which to make and produce new work but as opportunities to generate social, economic and environmental change. My landscape projects often begin with art historical research and evolve into contemporary art practice which includes film, photography, drawing, digital design, concept planting and collecting.
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The following short film forms part of an ongoing practice-based research project into the Venetian Renaissance painting, St Francis in Ecstasy, 1485, by Giovanni Bellini.
It combines photographic documentation of the La Verna landscape in Tuscan Apennines with sections of Bellini’s St Francis painting to present a new reading of the work and how it was made. I am currently developing the film to feature 12 sites which I believe are relevant to our understanding of how the painting may have been made. In doing so I aim to re-define the relationship between Art History and Contemporary Art Practice to allow for a more multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the nature of the landscape genre in Painting and its continued relevance to twenty-first century concerns around social, economic and environmental development.
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