Wild Clay

Screen prints with hand dug clay slip
2023

This series of prints formed by final piece for the last project of my undergraduate degree. I explored themes of mapping, land inequality and rural industries to produce a series of memory maps based on walks around the Wealden village my family have lived in for centuries. I researched family stories of teant farming under the lordship of the local Earl Egremont and tried to interrogate the nature of the relationship between my family and the land they toiled - a land they had no matierial claim to. The resulting series of images are screenprinted using clay collected on my walks and the designs and text are composits from drawing workshops and interviews.