Vézelay Seen from the South
Photograph - 56 x 84cm
Like Columns of Tiny Ants XXX
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
Scapeland XVIII
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
Landscape with Background Noise
Photograph - 56 x 84cm
Scapeland XVII
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
In Alvor
Photograph - 36 x 54cm
Like Columns of Tiny Ants XX
Constructed photograph - 41 x 123cm
Sudek’s Trees IV
Photograph - 36 x 54cm
I work with the materials in my local environment. My current practice is largely photographic, and much of it addresses the distinctive character of the woodlands, wetlands and wildlife of rural Norfolk. My interest is in spaces shaped and shared by human and nonhuman animals, but where neither is necessarily visible. The aim of the work is to give contemporary form to the experience of moving through these environments. Here, the material texture of place is what counts, marking out a kind of haptic space that is confined, pressing and immediate. Ron Broglio has aptly described this kind of embodied engagement with landscape as the “disjoined conjunction of stumbling and seeing.”
In addition to being a member of Norwich 20 Group, I am an artist-member of OUTPOST and of the national Land2 research network, and an associate of the Melbourne-based AEGIS research network for arts and ecology.
Steve's Website: www.steve-baker.com