BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
My paintings represent pockets of human settlement within vast uncultivated landscapes that seem to be unrestricted by boundary lines or borders. Life in these seemingly desolate landscapes is precarious and wholly dictated to by season and climate, whilst livelihoods are increasingly determined by the slow creep of ecological catastrophe. I describe it as thus because I am referring not to the tragedy of a single cataclysmic event, but to a daily incremental change that is barely discernible in real time and only recognised in retrospect. I aim to investigate the effect of climate change and the increasing depletion of natural resources for settlements and communities in rural locations, settlements that lie at the frontier of a new bleak wilderness. sarahbold.com