In Diane Howse’s practice, the juxtaposition and interaction of individual elements and images, many from photographic sources, is often key to a broader narrative in the work. This is true of the new works brought together for Wildwood, in which an assemblage of objects including two huge oak planks bearing a drawing constructed from tiny figures and trees, and a rough-hewn ‘nature table’, recall a notion of woodland both actual and otherworldly.
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