L-R: Colin Pantall, My Parents in Woolley; Dawn Rodgers, Sorrow 1; Mandy Williams, Chalk Shadow #2
Disrupted Landscapes
A three-person exhibition of photography and video from Mandy Williams, Colin Pantall and Dawn Rodgers
Four Corners, 121 Roman Road London E2 0QN
Disrupted Landscapes examines three representations of landscape in which personal histories, family trauma, and political narratives combine with the geology, geography, and the topographical uniqueness of England’s thin places.
In this vision, the past bleeds into the present, feet leave their imprints in the earth, but traces are also picked up from the earth. In Disrupted Landscapes, the earth holds knowledge, holds histories, and provides pathways between different strata of being and selfhood.
Artist Biographies
Mandy Williams is a London-based artist working with photography, video and sound to disrupt and expand traditional representations of landscape. Since 2016 her projects have focused on English coastal landscapes. They have become a place for her to explore themes of solitude and grief, and to reflect on contemporary politics and environmental issues.
Colin Pantall is a writer, lecturer and photographer based in Bath. His immersive photography is led by his immediate physical and domestic environments, and includes his projects 3 Valleys, Sofa Portraits, All Quiet on the Home Front, and My German Family Album, projects that look at his own family and surroundings from personal, environmental, and historical perspectives.
Dawn Rodgers is a visual artists and educator based in Berkshire, she navigates the landscape of the Ridgeway in Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, utilising photography, Mythology, and folklore as a means of exploring and expressing grief, loss and absence. Her practice is centred around the death of her brother and the complexity of feelings that grief leaves in its wake.