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According to the billboard-sized text panel at the entrance to Global Cities, shown at Tate Modern this summer: “More than fifty per cent of us now live in cities and according to the United Nations this number is set to rise to seventy-five per cent by 2050.”1 While these statistics obviously provided the rationale behind this oversize examination of urban sprawl, this statement left me wondering what about the rest of us? What about the other fifty per cent who, at least for the next forty-three years, live, work and somehow manage to exist outside a major conurbation? I have been unable to find any statistics that detail how many artists find themselves or, better still, actually choose to live and work in non-urban locations2. This absence of statistical data could be seen as evidence that what I will be addressing in this a-n Collection is an underestimated, undervalued and often invisible form of practice. What I am interested in examining is artistic practice that generates conceptually sound, high quality works of contemporary art that not only take place in, but embrace the non-urban; practices that utilise, document and explore the many and varied experiences...
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