Photographer Analysis – Alexander Mourant

Mourant is a Jersey born artist, educator, curator and writer based in London. His practice and research centres on photography, writing, performance and sculpture, with a particular interest in the legacies of agriculture, Land Art and Arte Povera.

For the exhibition, Mourant had created a new sculpture, “An Image That Holds Its Heat”. The artwork abstracts an original photograph depicting the effects of the weather upon a tomato crop (September, 1963).

The structures, taking the form of barn cloches used for growing vegetables, reference the history of photography in the 19th century when collodion photographs were made on glass negatives. Built on some of the most fertile land in Norway.