outshifts | NO WASTE SO VACANT

No Waste So Vacant enquires whether the beauty and connectedness of nature can be found in the least expected and often neglected places. The places often ignored because of our idealised perception of the pastoral and sublime landscape.

The work’s title is taken from a passage of prose written by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which succinctly expresses the meaning behind the series.

No plot so narrow, be but Nature there,
No waste so vacant, but may well employ
Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart
Awake to Love and Beauty!

Extract from This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by S.T. Coleridge, 1797

Focussing on a single location the series takes the viewer on a part autobiographical, documentary and environmental journey into one of these places, set outside the North Wiltshire village of Purton, through 2012-2014. The series forms a companion series to The Floods created over the same period.

A selection of images from the winter season of the overall series are presented in the gallery.