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Grace Layton | Travelly Well | Rights: In gross to water livestock at pool, including right of access t o water place over the land 20 20 LAM B DA print made from scan of negative taken on an analogue medium format camera with black and white film and hand – tinted using traditional photographic dyes. Exhibition print 100cm x 100cm Edition of 5 + 2 APs 50cm x 50cm. ‘Monument for the Vanquished’ commissioned and supported by GRAIN Projects.
Exhibition
Leah Gordon: Monument to the Vanquished | Part 1 | The Commoners
4 Oct 2022 – 11 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 5, Belmont
- Shrewsbury
England - SY1 1TE
- United Kingdom
A three part project exploring how the historic events of land enclosure ended people’s rights to land, showing that what started in the 16th century still impacts the landscape and its access today.
About
A Meadow Arts project by Leah Gordon and Annabel Edwards .
Artist Leah Gordon and writer/researcher Annabel Edwards explore how the historic events of land enclosure ended people’s rights to land, creating a disenfranchised class divorced from the land and forced into cities.
Common land makes up merely 3% of land in England and Wales today as opposed to 40% in the 1600s. Gordon and Edwards identified remaining pockets of common land that exist in Shropshire and photographed people who still hold common rights there.
The black and white photographs, made on an analogue medium-format camera, have been hand-tinted, to imbue the landscapes with a form of surreal magic to reimagine a more pagan relationship with the land.
