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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University College London : B - Fine Art
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979
This major touring exhibition is the most comprehensive exhibition of British Land art to date. Surveying the new forms of landscape art that developed in Britain from 1966 to 1979, it was developed from the research collaboration between myself, Nicholas Alfrey and Ben Tufnell through the AHRC-supported network, 'Land art and the culture of landscape 1967-1977', part of the Landscape and Environment programme (2006-08). My contribution also incorporated research from my own project, 'Earth Re-alignments: some European aspects of Land Art', AHRC-funded (Research Leave) in 2008. The exhibition and tour to four venues between May 2013 and June 2014 (Southampton City Art Gallery; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick and Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park) were organised with the Arts Council Collection and Hayward Touring.
The exhibition features the work of twenty-four artists and artist groups based in the Netherlands, South Africa and the US as well as the UK. Both exhibition and catalogue were collaboratively curated and authored. The catalogue takes the form of a 'field guide' with a series of entries on individual artists followed by entries arranged into Themes and Contexts, Landscapes and Environment, Processes and Materials, and Exhibitions and Publications. Entries are the result of a collaborative approach. The strategy was to divide the entries between the three authors to write first drafts. All texts were then circulated for additions and amendments by the other two authors before sending on to the production manager and editors at Hayward Publishing. The texts I originated were: Roger Ackling, Tony Cragg, Ian Hamilton Finlay, David Lamelas, John Latham, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, David Tremlett; Prehistory, Environment, Moon landings, Art Schools, Parks and Commons, Industrial and Working Landscapes, Filming and Transmission, Music and Sound, International Terms for Land Art and British Art Magazines.
