I set out on a journey along a straight line of longitude the entire length of England.

Two of England’s ancient ritual sites, Stonehenge and Avebury, stand in alignment along a north-south axis. Extend that line out and it begins at Hengistbury Head finding its culmination on Lindisfarne - a sacred place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years.

In the last decade, England has undergone a seismic shift. The debate around national and cultural identity rumbles on as the country seeks to define itself in this new era. This body of work aims to reconcile those divisions, inviting you to look beyond the line to consider how meaning and identity take form through ceremony, ritual & the routine of daily life.

Stretching nearly 400 miles, the line at -1°50 West unites together ancient sites of communal gathering. It passes on through urban sprawl, remote moorlands and forgotten industrial cities which in turn blend into bucolic landscapes. Eventually it crosses the sea along a centuries old pilgrimage route to a tidal island.

Along the way the work encounters volunteer coastguards, spiritualist churches, onlookers, astronomers, neopagan rituals, psychic mediums, and devoted pilgrims. The line interweaves an ever changing sequence of rituals and traditions, drifting from dawn rites at Avebury to collective prayer in Birmingham, from baptism to the chaos of medieval sport.

As the landscape shifts and evolves, it forges identity and shapes communities, their rituals blending with references to an ancient and often imagined past. Both a literal and symbolic spine, this vertical axis physically dissects the country in half whilst drawing its communities together in common identity.

I set out on a journey along a straight line of longitude the entire length of England.

Two of England’s ancient ritual sites, Stonehenge and Avebury, stand in alignment along a north-south axis. Extend that line out and it begins at Hengistbury Head finding its culmination on Lindisfarne - a sacred place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years.

In the last decade, England has undergone a seismic shift. The debate around national and cultural identity rumbles on as the country seeks to define itself in this new era. This body of work aims to reconcile those divisions, inviting you to look beyond the line to consider how meaning and identity take form through ceremony, ritual & the routine of daily life.

Stretching nearly 400 miles, the line at -1°50 West unites together ancient sites of communal gathering. It passes on through urban sprawl, remote moorlands and forgotten industrial cities which in turn blend into bucolic landscapes. Eventually it crosses the sea along a centuries old pilgrimage route to a tidal island.

Along the way the work encounters volunteer coastguards, spiritualist churches, onlookers, astronomers, neopagan rituals, psychic mediums, and devoted pilgrims. The line interweaves an ever changing sequence of rituals and traditions, drifting from dawn rites at Avebury to collective prayer in Birmingham, from baptism to the chaos of medieval sport.

As the landscape shifts and evolves, it forges identity and shapes communities, their rituals blending with references to an ancient and often imagined past. Both a literal and symbolic spine, this vertical axis physically dissects the country in half whilst drawing its communities together in common identity.