A two metre panorama, Natural Simulacre, has just gone up on the art wall at Rye Harbour Discovery Centre.
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is largely man-made, a reconstruction of a natural place maintained by the hard work of the staff and volunteers. Local artist Jonathan Lamb combines photography with 3D printing to examine how landscape is formed – on the ground, in our minds and in pictures.
The installation invites the viewer to participate in the current debate around the Anthropocene – a period when human activity is the dominant influence on the environment. Are we nature? If so, why do we define it as other, and how does this alter
our notion of responsibility for the management of the natural?
The piece will be on the wall until November 30. For the first half-term week it will be accompanied by an exhibition of prints and collages from the children’s Wilder Learning workshops.
Rye Harbour Discovery Centre TN31 7FW
10am to 4pm
Free Parking
Image Credits: Jonathan Lamb .