Adam Hogarth is an artist living and working between Folkestone and London. His work is an anthropological study of fictitious folk communities that hang onto life 900 years after a global environmental disaster.
There was a disaster! A house of cards teetering on oblivion finally toppled. Under their own top-heavy weight, political and bureaucratic structural systems of yesteryear finally collapsed.
A series of nuclear wars ensued, followed by a complete ecological and environmental disintegration. Crops collapsed and as nuclear reactors failed one by one, huge swathes of land and oceans became contaminated and uninhabitable. Inevitably, the excess of nuclear meltdown finally permeated the entire earth.
The pieces exhibited here are part of a larger series of drawings and prints, titled Battle Cat. These works are an anthropological study of a fictitious folk community that hangs onto life 900 years after a global mass extinction.
Set at Jarman’s Point (formally the coastline connecting Folkestone to Dungeness), to a backdrop of cataclysmic sea-level rises and a mass extinction of most animals, humanity has regressed to a new dark age.
Within the work, Adam intertwines his own personal experiences with new religious movements that echo a naïve vision of the past, distorted by the disaster. These common tales of war, peace, death and love are tales than span aeons, from our collective past to our defunct future.
