Jonathan Alibone

Preservation By Record

Jackson's Art Prize 2025
Watercolour
Paper
15 x 12 cm

£360

“My practice is a meditation on the conflict between nature and culture, between the deep geological past and a profoundly uncertain future. It invokes current geopolitical realities, specifically our precarious relationship with the natural world, with our environment and our history, signifying upheaval and destructive activities that alter and transform the landscape. Moreover, my work explores notions of legacy and what we, individually and culturally, leave behind; of that which remains and endures, or perishes and fades. This is revealed in the fragment or trace, the indexical vestige that conjures signs of our passing, of movement through the landscape, and of vanished habitations, industries and activities that have transformed and shaped it.”