Exhibitions

Venue: Rockwell, London

Dates: 2004

Jonathan Allen, Jesper Alvaer, Fabienne Audeoud, Tim Bailey, Jay Barsby, Mark and Steve Beasley, Dave Beech, Marc Camille, Chaimowicz, Eleanor Cherry, Martin Clark and Mark Dickenson, Henry Coleman, John Sell Cotman, Phil Coy, Kate Davis, Kaye Donachie, Rob Filby, Phil Gardner, Beth Groom, Richard Hughes, Christian Jankowski, Gunilla Klingberg, Thorsten Knaub, Jiri Kovanda, Friedrich Kunath, Simon Ling, Jan Mancuska, Andrea Mason, Simon Morris, David Musgrave, Rupert Norfolk, Oliva Plender, Elizabeth Price, Tristan |Reed, John Russell, Mathew Sawyer, Jan Serych, Neil Smallbone, clare Stephenson, Peter Suchin, Thomas Vanek, Emily Wardill, Elizabeth Wright, Toby Ziegler

‘The small propeller plane that services the route from Amsterdam to Norwich first climbed toward the sun before turning west. Spread out beneath us lay one of the most densely-populated regions in Europe, with endless terraces, sprawling satellites towns, business parks and shining glass houses which looked like large quadrangular ice floes drifting across this corner of the continent where not a patch is left to its own devices. Over the centuries the land had been regulated, cultivated and built on until the whole region was transformed into a geometric pattern. The roads, water channels and railway tracks ran in straight lines and gentle curves past fields and plantations, basins and reservoirs. Like beads on abucus designed to calculate infinity, cars glided along the lanes of the motorways, while the ships moving up and down river appeared as if they had been halted forever.’

W.G Sebald ‘The Rings of Saturn’