Looking at Looking at Landscape exhibition - Barbara Greene
Barbara explained a little about some of her new work for the exhibition:
“My interest in landscape is not so much the emotional or traditional aspects but how it has been managed and changed.
Where I live in the Dales has been formed by centuries of sheep farming which meant that there are not many trees anymore. There is a small plantation near Connonley with some reforesting and a little foresting as a consequence. I made a small sculpture of this Plantation and then I shone a projector through this on to the wall to create oil stick shadow prints which are like the shadow of trees past.
The three Stone pictures are rubbings from he surfaces of stones cut from the quarry in Connonley but actually part of the paving from our farmhouse. So much of this project is about early man and how use of the landscape has impacted upon it. I wondered how an early person in the Dales might have reacted and so the Designs for Monoliths are an imagined early response to the landscape, not in a religious way but something like Stonehenge.”