Mark Edwards – Disturbances

24 September - 12 November 2005

The word Landscape was first introduced into modern English from Dutch around the seventeenth century and was exclusively a painters' term. Then, English landscape painters strived to capture a perfect place, where the imagery was idyllic and the concept of man working with nature was highly romanticised.

In 2004, photographer Mark Edwards developed a body of work that rejected this approach to landscape. Instead Edwards was drawn to empty, peopleless landscapes where man's intervention of nature was indicated only through trace elements.

Collapsing, corrugated fencing and overgrown allotments are among the marks and scars that have been left on the landscape, showing human existence in the most neglected of places. These images of disturbance and neglect allude to the passing of people and even the passing of humankind but conversely underline the resilience of nature.

Disturbances is a Focal Point Gallery Touring Exhibition.