Links to the Land

Interactive immersive installation/Land Art, Solsbury Hill, Bath 2017.

The main concepts and ideas for this work involved the links, similarities and relationship to environmental activism and land art, and how they can be seen as forms of each other. Throughout the year I developed a protest camp on Solsbury Hill in Bath, working at an ex road protesting site from 1994, against the Solsbury Hill Bypass.

Land Art is all about creating an earthwork at a particular place which is meaningful to the artist. I have two reasons why I chose to create my site specific artwork here, one being that my parents were protesting here back in the day, and were part of many 90’s roads protesting movements, such as the Donga Tribe of Twyford Down, M11, and Newbury. I was raised on the protesting traveller scene, with one of the last protest camps I lived on being Cardiff Blackwood Forest protest back in early 2000’s.

The second is that Solsbury Hill is an ancient hillfort, once named Mynydd Badden, in which it is told that King Arthur drove back the Saxon invasion into what is now known as Cymru. These were my personal connections to the landscape and why I chose to create my installation there.