Terra Incognita: On This Land | In This Land | Of This Land is a contemplative exploration of the conflicted concepts of land access and ownership, revealing uncomfortable truths about the ways in which physical boundaries and social constructs shape our relationship with, and stewardship of, the land.

It challenges the framing of landscape as a resource to be owned or viewed, rather than a living environment that we are inherently part of, highlighting our human displacement from the natural world.

The series exposes how sanctioned routes reinforce our disconnection, disassociation andestrangement from the land. These curated paths reflect a deeper learned cultural response to set ourselves apart as humans, as ‘other’, glimpsing the land from afar, becoming detached from our innate connectivity and symbiotic relationship.

As the imagery grows increasingly distorted and dreamlike, it reveals our discoloured perception of the landscape and the psychological toll of separation from nature. The artist’s ghosted presence the landscape symbolises a quiet act defiance to reclaim our human place within the landscape. 

Terra Incognita unravels our inherited perceptions of the land, exploring the act of ‘trespass’. In doing so, it reveals a deeper truth: that to reconnect with the land, we must first reclaim our right to belong within it.

Terra Incognita: On This Land | In This Land | Of This Land has been shown as a solo show at Dalby Forest and as part of How Pleasant To Go To A Friend On A Trip at Humber Street Gallery.