Edward Clydesdale Thomson

Often playing on the tension between exterior and interior, Edward Clydesdale Thomson’s (1982, United Kingdom) practice is inspired by landscape imagery - specifically stemming from 19th century European garden design and decorative arts. Focusing on the cultural ideology behind the manipulation of nature and the reproduction images of nature, Thomson’s conceptual and multi-media approach attempts to provoke a re-examining of seemingly banal garden imagery within its carefully constructed political and historical context.