Jasper Goodall
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Jasper Goodall (b. Birmingham UK 1973) is an artist/photographer based in Sussex UK.
His practice, whilst photographic, is rooted in the imaginary; using the natural landscape as source material spaces are altered either through the use of artificial light, physical intervention or reconstruction of natural elements to make a photograph. This alteration transforms real spaces into ‘make believe’ places.
Photography is a step in a broader process; often one involving the creation of physical objects or scenes that exist only temporarily. Their function is to serve as subject matter – props – for the finished image. This is not a documentary practice; it is more like imaginative image construction.
Goodall’s photography eschews the picturesque, instead reimagining the landscape as an eldritch narrative, exploring the tension between the beauty of the natural world and a sense that its mysteries have the potential to swallow us up. Each scene is an attempt to articulate stillness and solitude, whilst drawing attention to a sense of the quiet, abiding presence of the natural world.
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Where once we stood on Scragged Oak Hill is a project using the remnants of felled trees to build ‘forest figures.’ These talismanic forms act as a symbolic embodiment of the trees that have now gone – an arboreal haunting.
The Forest Figures draw, albeit indirectly, on older symbolic traditions—specifically animistic belief systems and European folk representations of nature. Figures such as the Green Man or the Woodwose embodied a personified, often unruly natural world – beings that blurred the boundary between human and landscape. While not literal depictions of these mythic forms, the Forest Figures can be understood as a contemporary reimagining of that impulse: to give shape to nature as an active, sentient force – they act as a witness to their surroundings.
The project’s title refers to the location of the first figure: Scragged Oak Hill, where a grove of mature hemlock trees once stood and were subsequently felled providing the catalyst and material for the first figure in this series.
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