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St. Austell China Clay Pits 2

(2003 Britain)

James Hyman Photography


St. Austell China Clay Pits 2

Artist(s): JEM SOUTHAM (born 1982)
Medium: Chromogenic print
Signed: Signed, titled and dated
Dimensions: 60.00cm wide   50.00cm high (23.62 inches wide  19.69 inches high)
Exhibition History:

Exhibited:
Jem Southam, From a Distance: An Industrial Landscape in Cornwall, Tate St. Ives, 9 October 2004 - 9 January 2005
The Earth Only Endures, Stone Theatre Gallery, 20 May 2011 - 26 August 2011.

Description:

Jem Southam
St. Austell China Clay Pits 2
C-Print photograph
127 x 152.4 cms (49.91 x 59.89 ins)
2003

The series 'Cornish Clay Country' was commissioned in 2004 by Tate St. Ives.
These works investigate the mines and the landscape as it is transformed by excavation of English China clay by Imerys in St. Austell. The resulting photographs are dark and surreal, mixing industrial landscapes with artificial land masses in a state of perpetual fluctuation.

These works were first exhibited at Tate St. Ives as part of the exhibition 'From a Distance: An Industrial Landscape in Cornwall' in 2004-5.

This print is 50 x 60 inches, printed to the border in an edition of 6.