Working Title: Willoughby Project

Working towards creating a series of works for the Willoughby Gallery in Lincolnshire in 2019. Researching the historical and current impact of models of trade on local people in particular in relation to the agrarian economy, linking with the notion of lost stories and preservation. This is the county of my birth, however having left at the age of one, it is also a county where I have no real memories, just family stories. The process of researching oral histories will be reconnecting to that landscape in one sense and they will be collected and published within the gallery setting along side abstract pieces which have their roots in the Lincolnshire landscape, which are my personal response to the landscape as it is now. My recent work has been concerned with creating spaces, the landscapes of Lincolnshire in their flatness have almost eternal space, which at times turns to the bleak, beautiful and other times comic. I have recently had confirmation that a series of my photographs will be on display on screen in the gallery this Sheep Fair in 2017, with a meet and greet so that I can recruit people who would like to have their stories recorded for the project. I have taken a series of photographs which make up a walk around the village, on two separate occasions, which nicely reflected the changing colours of the landscape from early to late summer. These have gone off to Graham Underwood on disc in the post.