haptic /tacit: Edgelands

Plot: 2024-25

County Hall Pottery - London

Exhibition opening at County Hall Pottery, https://countyhallpottery.com/ Monday 18th March 2025

This work has directly been inspired by Kim’s time in 2024 as artist in residence at Stuart Road Allotments, in Nunhead, southeast London.

 Allotments are often regarded as an edgeland. Plot holders often use what’s to hand resulting in a distinct vernacular landscape, slightly chaotic but deeply steeped within an instantly recognisable aesthetic sensibility.

 The allotment, like most of London, sits on sticky ochre-coloured clay soil that is notoriously difficult to garden on. The locally-dug clay is echoed throughout this installation, shown in various states of being. It endeavours to emanate the sense of place that prides itself on community and, most importantly, is a space for growth.

‘An essentially peopled landscape, the allotment fits unfamiliarly in contemporary cultural expectations, somewhere in between the city and the country and yet representing neither contemporary projected landscape. It falls between being a public and private landscape in a way that few others do. Its visibility is accompanied by the fact that it is not used or presented for display’

The Allotment it’s Landscape and Culture

David Crouch and Colin Ward

Stuart Road Allotments: Feb 2025 walk with Sarah Christie.