'Synthetic Landscapes' opened on Sunday 4th June running until 3rd September, 2017. The exhibition, curated by midlands based Arts Council NPO and Tate Plus organisation, Meadow Arts took place in the walled gardens and the Granary Art Gallery at Weston Park, famous both as one of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's early landscape gardens coupled with building designed by 18th century architect James Paine, whose tercentenary took place in 2017.
The exhibition explored the contested notion of what constitutes a landscape and how the idealisation of the idea in country parks like Weston Park as superb man-made manifestations might also be aesthetically and culturally critiqued as a reaction to this art historical reading. The exhibition also took place in Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery's new Music Hall venue where emerging midlands artists David Bethell explored the eighteenth century transformation of landscape through the tools and inventions of the industrial revolution combining new works, objects and a film with those of the museum collection.
New works on paper by myself, not previously exhibited, were shown for the first time, along with some existing large paintings and three dimensional objects. These painted works on paper further explored the margins of our still largely un-noticed road network margins.
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