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Our Lost Future |
Our Lost Future is a series of paintings exploring and celebrating the optimism, ambition and promise embodied in post-war visions of tomorrow. Inspired by archival photographs, artists' impressions and found imagery, the series reimagines the civic spaces of post-war Britain as places shaped by hope, imagination and the belief that the future could be better than the present. Drawing upon archival photographs, artists' impressions and found imagery, the paintings occupy a space between memory and imagination. Familiar locations become anonymous, real buildings merge with invented ones, and people, traffic and signage disappear. The resulting works present self-contained worlds that invite the viewer to step into a future as it was once imagined. Neither historical records nor architectural reconstructions, these paintings explore the aspirations embedded within the built environment; a belief that thoughtful design, planning and imagination could shape a better world. Our Lost Future is not about decline. It is about optimism, possibility and the excitement of standing at the edge of a new world.
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