Artist : Jackson Whitefield
Title : Imprint I
Medium : etching on paper with silver gelatin prints in a five part polished aluminium frame
Dimensions : 87 x 87 cm


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Mild steel forms were buried, embedded or secured to the earth at various pertinent sites and left to be imprinted by the elements. After a three month period the steel shapes were photographed, removed and then etched to paper. These forms are presented alongside photographic images of the sites where each form was left to weather.

Jackson Whitefield is a British artist born in St. Ives, Cornwall in 1991. Whitefield works with a diverse range of media including photography, film, drawing, book making and site-specific earthworks. Themes which run through his work include geology, anthropology, process and language. While his choice of media and interests are diverse, his inspiration is rooted firmly in his immediate surroundings. Always allowing his environment to lead his immediate enquiry his approach to making the work is more about reacting and engaging with the subject rather than seeking out ideas that were already formed in the mind.