About

Stephen Wadcock is a Welsh-born, London-based artist working across installation, photography, moving image, sound, sculpture, drawing and writing. His practice considers how people establish and revise viable bearings within environments that are impermanent, partly unknowable and never wholly controllable.

Working between field research, observation and constructed situations, Wadcock examines how spatial and perceptual relations are shaped by distance, boundary, horizon, light, duration, exposure and systems of direction. Natural, built and institutional environments each provide different conditions through which orientation, uncertainty and agency can be tested.

His work often begins with precise material or environmental conditions rather than predetermined meanings. Photography, film, sound, writing and installation may operate as research methods, records or autonomous works, according to what the enquiry requires. Across these forms, he is interested in maintaining uncertainty without turning it into spectacle, and in creating encounters that remain open to interpretation, ambivalence and refusal.

Wadcock is currently undertaking an MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

An art practice about facing our horizon