Robert Smithson – Liz Clifford

Among the Trees.

Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London. Open Wednesday to Sunday until 31 October 2020. I was hoping to see this exhibition before lockdown but my plans were thwarted. So perhaps I have relished the opportunity to visit it all the more as there are still not many exhibitions open. In addition, I now find myself workingContinue reading “Among the Trees.”

Substrata

This work consists of a stack of hand built gabion baskets filled with collected materials from the landscape. The largest layer is chalk, then flint, brick, concrete, plastic and metal objects, earth and moss. The chalk layer represents the vastness of geological time, and the work references human impact on the fossil record as wellContinue reading “Substrata”