a shel of old muck stoan hard unner the new muck tho nor I cudnt fynd no name - from Russell Hoban’s ‘Riddley Walker’

This is a collection of images which map Canterbury’s Shelford landfill site. The landfill is an obscured space, deliberately hidden by geography, fencing, and unreadable planning documents. It contains material 'disappeared' from the past (and present), material which nonetheless leaches into a future of poisoned water, earth, and sky. I attempt to depart from a tradition of landscape paintings which optically re-present territory; instead, I re-practise the process of the landfill by depositing layers of mixed, carcinogenic, and inseparable chemicals onto the surface of paper.

Dimensions: 80x200 cm

Media: Oak gall, fungus, burnt animal bone, brick dust, cadmium, barium chromate, phthalocyanides, acrylic, linseed oil, polypropylene rubble sack.

Display: Wall hanging