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Howler's Hill
Keith Arnatt used his camera, and a detailed knowledge of art history, to embed entirely ordinary objects with
new meaning. This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken at Howler’s Hill – a landfill site near the Forest of Dean – that confronts the impact of our throw-away society. Under the warm, early evening light, the rotting piles become something arresting, even beautiful. Bulging binbags and, cardboard boxes and even a tangled string of fairy lights take on all the emotion and grandeur of 16th-century Baroque oil paintings.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 14114
Creation/Production
ARNATT, Keith
Date:
Acquisition
Purchase, 25/4/1989
Measurements
Height
(cm): 60.5
Width
(cm): 60.5
h(cm) frame:88.8
h(cm)
w(cm) frame:87.5
w(cm)
Techniques
photograph
Fine Art - works on paper
Material
photograph
Location
In store
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