About Fractured Land Collective
Fractured Land Collective is a group of five artists working across photography, film, sculpture, painting, printmaking and sound. Through collaborative exhibitions and public projects, the collective explores place, history, landscape and contemporary life through both fact and imagination.
Lian Chan
Artist
Lian Chan’s practice explores landscapes of the past and future. Drawing on historical narratives, deep time and future ecologies, her photographic work reimagines landscapes and their stories to suggest alternate truths and realities.
For Truth or Folly, she presents a fictional narrative based on the Peace family, who once resided at Castle Hill House. Against the backdrop of this mysterious site, she combines archival material with photography to conjure past and future.
Jane Peacock
Artist
Jane Peacock’s practice encompasses painting, drawing and printmaking, producing abstracted landscapes that engage with geological time, evolutionary history, myth and folklore.
For Truth or Folly, she creates imagined scenes from the past containing both real and fictional elements that reference the layered nature of storytelling. These images consider how archaeological fact, local myth and collective memory become entangled in the context of Castle Hill House and the town of High Wycombe.
Ellie Laycock
Artist
Ellie Laycock is an award-winning London-based multidisciplinary artist working across photography, film, sculpture and sound. Her research-led practice explores land, power, memory and contested histories through image-making, archives and material objects.
For Truth or Folly, she responds to High Wycombe’s chair-making history, focusing on the skilled but poorly paid home-based labour of women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An antique Windsor chair is re-caned in pink wool, linking local cane-seat weavers to the textile work of the artist’s own family history. A lace-making sculpture in the shape of the number eight references the age many girls left school to begin work.
Caroline Thomson
Artist
Caroline Thomson is an MA graduate painter whose practice draws on European fairy tales, local folklore and mythology. She explores the rich artistic and literary history of woodlands and forests, using them as metaphors for retreat, transformation and the unknown to create psychologically charged paintings.
Her work emerges through thin washes of oil paint combined with a rhythmic calligraphic line, allowing light and colour to create atmosphere. Caroline has exhibited extensively, and her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally.
Ellie Reid
Artist
Ellie Reid brings a sculptural approach to her practice, working across drawing, printmaking, sculpture and installation.
For Truth or Folly, inspired by the history of Castle Hill House, its folly and the surrounding Buckinghamshire woodlands, she has created two site-responsive works for the museum garden. Exploring the intersection of the man-made and the organic, and the manicured and the wild, these pieces will evolve over the course of the twelve-month exhibition as the surrounding landscape changes.