Unearthed

Brick & Stone, Iron & Bronze

Brick & Stone, Iron & Bronze was developed during a three-month residency in Wood Enderby, Lincolnshire, combining fieldwalking, research, painting and public engagement, and was first exhibited at Tattershall Castle in 2024.

The project emerged from a period of immersion in the landscape and community surrounding the village. Through fieldwalking and metal detecting, I collected fragments of brick and pottery, pieces of iron, buttons, coins and occasional archaeological artefacts. Gathered from the surface and subsoil of working farmland, these objects became the starting point for a series of paintings exploring the traces people leave behind and the relationship between place, memory and material.

Alongside the development of the work, the project included a programme of talks and public engagement activities with local communities, creating opportunities to share conversations around landscape, archaeology, local history and the stories embedded within everyday objects.

Presented against fields of raw canvas, the objects are removed from their original context and transformed into records of encounter. Rather than reconsrtructing history, the paintings reflect upon the act of discovery itself and the connections that emerge between contemporary experience and the material remains of the past.