The series 'Cornish Clay Country' was commissioned in 2004 by Tate St. Ives.
Photographs from this series are available as C-type colour prints in an edition of 6, 50 x 60 ins printed to the edge.
These works investigate the mines and the landscape as it is transformed by excavation of English China clay by Imerys in St. Austell. The resulting photographs are dark and surreal, mixing industrial landscapes with artificial land masses in a state of perpetual fluctuation.
These works were first exhibited at Tate St. Ives as part of the exhibition 'From a Distance: An Industrial Landscape in Cornwall' in 2004-5.
Jem Southam
St. Austell China Clay Pits 3
C-Print photograph
127 x 152.4 cms (49.91 x 59.89 ins)
2003
Exhibited:
Jem Southam, From a Distance: An Industrial Landscape in Cornwall, Tate St. Ives, 9 October 2004 - 9 January 2005
The Earth Only Endures, Stone Theatre Gallery, 20 May 2011 - 26 August 2011.