Cheeseburn 2 - Dreaming Dobson's Dream

Site-responsive installation, 2020–2021

This work developed during a return to Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens the year following my initial residency. Several drawings from the first project remained embedded in the landscape, having continued to weather, degrade, and change over time. Rather than retrieving or restoring them, this phase of the work extended the existing pieces through additional drawing and installation.

New works were introduced in response to both the altered drawings and the site itself. A central piece, Dreaming Dobson’s Dream, was inspired by Dobson’s Dream, a painting by John Varley depicting the architect John Dobson, who designed Cheeseburn Grange. The work reflects on architectural imagination, projection, and legacy, reinterpreted through drawing, material decay, and site-based process.

By working alongside existing drawings shaped by time and exposure, this project treated the landscape as an active collaborator. The practice embraced duration, uncertainty, and accretion, allowing historical reference, weathering, and place to inform how the work evolved.

This second phase deepened the exploration of drawing as a temporal, performative act , one that accumulates meaning through return, attention, and material transformation.