Caroline Halliday

Art is not neutral – it always has a political context. My intention as an artist continues the focuses I have as a writer, to ‘experiment with shape, material and form to explore social and human issues’. My art-work connects to my enjoyment of the physicality of paper, text and books, and I have a series of works developing the ‘internal work’ in personal journals, and creating new work which I called Book forms.

My delight in the unruly -earth/soil/dirt/low art- placed in the location of the art gallery is an invitation to the viewer to be on ‘a more intimate relationship’ with earth. For each of us to have this more intimate relationship with our own patch of earth or our site as Smithson might have called it, could have a wide ranging impact on our we treat the world.

Some of my recent work (see Down to Earth) stems from a long interest in earth shapes and textures beneath my feet and in the many things people choose not to ‘see’, whether it is earth, suffering, or the right to own your identity.

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In Search of our Children's Gardens
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