2019 | Florence Richardson

Florence Richardson is a multidisciplinary video artist who is interested in the strange and eerie yet nostalgic reflections of pastoral environments. Informed by the psychological spaces of American Gothic film and literature, English folk horror and the uncanny, she creates filmic realms which invite audiences into the liminal spaces between modes of fictional narrative, reality and cultural memory. Working in digital video, sound design, print and textiles, her immersive audio-visual installations filter familiar aesthetics through a conceptual lens of hauntology: a cultural and social concept encompassing lost rural pasts, misremembered fictional media and the eerie, dreamlike elements of conventionally bucolic landscapes.

“The work of cultural critic, author and lecturer Mark Fisher was intrinsic to articulating my lifelong fascination with the quietly haunting nature of the landscapes I grew up in – both in reality and the media I viewed … I will utilise my residency position to navigate and share the ideas and aesthetics voiced by an author whose presence on this plane of reality departed too soon”.