A List of Probable Flora (2013)

Part of a series of collaborative works, entitled Memorious Earth, produced with Autumn Richardson in response to the landscape of the Furness Fells in south-western Cumbria, UK.

In 1777, Nicolson & Burn wrote ‘the lower part of Ulpha is very woody and good land, the upper part more rocky and barren.’ A List of Probable Flora is a subtle celebration of the tenacity of the plant-life that endures, and even thrives, in the supposedly empty uplands. It forms a celebratory counterpoint to the elegiac Relics (2013), and an acknowledgement of the complexity of the debate around land use and human intervention in environmental succession.

Just as Relics is based on the work of palynologists, so A List of Probable Flora is derived from botanical surveys of the region, as published in Halliday’s A Flora of Cumbria.

Material from Memorious Earth has been exhibited internationally.

[Memorious Earth at Corbel Stone Press]