Country Life is a series of fifteen images with text taken in London, Scotland and Oxfordshire.

This series pictures interiors and gardens laid out according to the picturesque canons of the eighteenth century. The work was commissioned by The Photographers' Gallery for a group exhibit entitled Britain in 1984.

The work highlights the attitudes and activities of the British landed gentry, which had changed little since the times of olde. Like Knorr's earlier works Belgravia (1979-81) and Gentlemen (1981-83), the series parodies class attitudes and the received ideas of the 1980's under Thatcherism.

This series differs, in its appropriate to still life and landscape genres to plot the traces of the leisure class. Nature, like the objects photographed, is property. Objects inside and outside serve to commemorate past family histories. Looking at Country Life today the development of labour's classless society is still a project to be striven for. Social networks based on favour, privilege and accidents of birth continue despite new technologies and progress.

From and edition of 10 of a series of 15 prints.
Please contact the gallery for information on purchasing the full set of the series.