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In February 2011, British artist and designer Stuart Haygarth (born 1966) did an unusual thing: he started to walk along the entire coast of southern England, with the goal of collecting every man-made item that he came across. He had a purpose in mind, for Haygarth gathers discarded or overlooked objects and elevates them into art, making exquisite artefacts and stunning installations out of common detritus and everyday waste. Yet his practice is as much about the process of collecting and collating materials as it is about the creation of value or beauty. For Strand --the Old English and German word for -beach---he walked from Gravesend to Land's End and picked up the thousands of synthetic items left washed up on the shore. Combs, lighters and baby dolls, plastic balls, toys, containers and shoes were just some of the many objects he found on the 500-mile trip. Back in the studio, he categorized each one by type and colour before arranging them into precise compositions and photographing them. Displaying the formal rigor of the designer and the aesthetic eye of the artist, the resulting images seduce with their beauty and visual immediacy. The objects form an archive of sorts,

Author

Stuart Haygarth, Robert Marcfarlane, Deyan Sudjic

Publisher

Thames & Hudson, Limited

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781908970251

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

3.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13