Landscape Archives

On Weaving

“In On Weaving, Alchemy artists in residence Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn respond to the legacies of textile artists Bernat and Margaret Klein and their

New Territories (spectacle is king)

A summer in the life of a filmmaker weaving her way through six carnivals in England. New Territories observes Caribbean cultural life celebrated-and contested- in

Image from inside a cave looking up and out to the walls of the cave and the sky that is a gradient of grey, to pink, to blue. The grey and pink being clouds, and the blue being the sky.

Siticulosa

Siticulosa explores the journey that historical artefacts undergo over time, from everyday objects and works of art, to archaeological treasures of high historical and sometimes

Being Blue

In 2023, Fowler embarked on a residency at Prospect Cottage, the former home of artist, filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994). Jarman moved

Afterthoughts of a Walk on the Naze

In the year of his death, my great-uncle, the artist Nigel Henderson, wrote a letter addressed to my future self. In his letter, he asked

MASCON: A Massive Concentration Of Black Experiential Energy

Think of Mascon: A Massive Concentration Of Black Experiential Energy as an audiovisual investigation into the gestures, geometries, grammars and geographies that compose the forms

Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)

“Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)” is an experimental film focusing on interwoven narratives around the mutual struggle against Portuguese colonialism between India and

A mother horse and her young foal lay in a dry, dead field, this field is strewn with rubbish and plastic waste.

With Horses

‘With Horses’ (2023) is a rumination on living and dying on a damaged planet. In the film we encounter a newborn foal amidst a landscape

E-MINOR

E-Minor’s starting point is a linoleum tile depicting a clown’s face that existed in the basement of Hill’s grandparents’ home on Staten Island, New York.

Resilience

Resilience is the third part of the trilogy. The first is one is ‘Resonance (2021)’, the second one is ‘Rhizome’(2023). In the film ‘Resilience’ I

To Keep the Mountain at Bay

An homage to Etel Adnan (1925-2021) the film invokes a queer and ghostly presence through the recitation of Adnan’s poetry in Sausalito, CA where she

Girl in Grass

At the side of a field a girl sits bored, listening to the idle chat of bargain hunters. A camera is placed in the grass

The Silver Wave

The Silver Wave was an ‘Untold Stories’ commission for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. Inspired by objects from the Arctic region in RAMM’s collection,

The Fruit is There to be Eaten

‘The Fruit is There To Be Eaten’, the second instalment of the Dissolution Trilogy is based on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947).

Casting Kanchi

Casting Kanchi (2015) is a spatialised and expanded version of House of Women (2017) and a response to the casting of white actor Jean Simmons

Themes: Landscape