Muck and the Mire
Paradise Works, Salford
An exhibition by Anna Clough and Nicole Sheppard.
‘Muck and the Mire’ is a sculpture and time based exhibition. The work is a playful exploration of the prompt “The Material Process of Being Alive” in which artist Anna Clough and Nicole Sheppard explore pressing environmental issues. The artists consider their own entanglement in the environment, exploring materiality found in edgeland spaces.
Edglands spaces are liminal or transitional places created between urban and rural areas. They often become wild wastelands. Within them are littered objects of industry and agriculture, entwined by brambles and briars. Acting as sudden interceptions into existing ecosystems and a visual reminder of human input on the land. These spaces question the duality of subject and object, exposing our day to day material assumptions. Through collecting, assembling and journeying with these notions, Clough and Sheppard investigate the storied history of matter and land. In doing so they explore movement through the entanglement of objects. Exhibiting a material language that is reactivated by natural forces, human labour or machine.
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