This exhibition is timed to coincide with the show ‘A Picture of Britain' at the Tate Britain gallery in London.

 

‘A Picture of Britain' explores how the British landscape has inspired artists for three hundred years. It looks at how these artists have come to define the way in which we view the landscape.

 

This parallel ‘Landscapes Under Threat' exhibition features paintings and photographs of scenes that are under threat from current plans for new roads. It acts as a reminder that the landscape is more than a museum piece. Instead, its shape is largely determined by policy decisions.

 

Treasured landscapes are still valuable today, and cannot be permanently ruined for the sake of 10 minutes off a car journey, or for a short-term answer to congestion.

 

We hope that this exhibition will help push the idea of ‘building new roads to cater for greater capacity' the same way that ‘smoking in the workplace' went – we hope it will become a generally unacceptable idea.

Arundel		Bexhill Hastings		Harnham
Heysham		High & Low Newton		M6 Expressway
M74		Mottram Tintwistle		Norwich
Wylye Valley