The Screen
Landscape and Inheritance Osi Rhys Osmond & Tim Stokes
01 September - 16 September 2012
Landscape and Inheritance
Video edited by Tim Stokes
“This work examines the history and contemporary landscape around the former mining village of Wattsville, in the lower Sirhowi Valley, where I grew up, my father and mother were born and where my father, uncles and grandfathers on both sides worked as miners.
As an art student I resisted the vogue for a certain kind of image of the mining industry and sought to create something that spoke more about the eternal qualitites of the landscape in which I found myself. The more sentimental view of the mining life that had become the accepted norm in the visual arts was something that I felt had been done and added little to any understanding of how that community lived, worked and socialised.
I have always been obsessed by the landscape in which I grew up and the pure abstract beauty of the changing colour of the bracken covered hills surrounding the valley that became perhaps the dominant factor in making me an artist.”
