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Work Type:	photography
Date of work:	1997/8
Materials:	medium: photographs
Style Period:	Contemporary art
Subject:	landscape, farm, rural
Technique:	photography
Series:	from series of 7

Description:	Maddle Farm. It may be problematic to see such apparently simple representations of a landscape. Why should a bend in the road, angle of hedge and ploughed field extending across the horizon have any hold in contemporary vision? It gains attention because the associative romanticism of the rural, or artificial composition of directed gaze is denied by Louise Spence in these directly autonymous works. [MORE] [LESS] Maddle Farm. It may be problematic to see such apparently simple representations of a landscape. Why should a bend in the road, angle of hedge and ploughed field extending across the horizon have any hold in contemporary vision? It gains attention because the associative romanticism of the rural, or artificial composition of directed gaze is denied by Louise Spence in these directly autonymous works.

Source:	From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.

Date of source:	1999