Harvest

Light sculptures, 300m x 250m field, 66 x LED Bales.

Harvest was a site-specific intervention on farmland beneath Box Hill, Surrey.

In developing this project, Branson explored the relationship of the local farming community to the land, the processes and rituals of harvest time and the impact of the changing climate on their business. Harvest was an illuminated artwork highlighting some of the unseen work that goes into shaping the landscape that is often taken for granted.

Our changing climate has had a particularly damaging effect on farming in 2018, with the drought resulting in a much-reduced crop. Branson’s installation featured sixty-six ‘skeleton’ bales – illuminated outlines, arranged in a farmed formation across the lower field.