ALISON REES — LOOP: POSTCARDS FROM THE GREENBELT
ALISON REES - ARTIST FILM - CLIENT | BRITISH CERAMICS BIENNIAL - JUNE 25
[SYNOPSIS]
For Award 2025, Alison Rees undertook a long-distance walk through the London Green Belt, marking each stage with a porcelain postcard — around 400 selected from 500 made. The project responds directly to the ongoing political debate over Green Belt land use, housing and growth. Each postcard is a record of what exists right now, at this specific moment in time.
[TRANSCRIPT]
"Everything starts with the walking, and the way of noticing. You can be in a place that feels a little bit mysterious, a little bit magical.
An artist doesn't make work in a vacuum. Everything has a backdrop to what's happening at the time that you make the work.
I used to think I didn't make political work — work that was going to say something about something. But I've realised everything I do is saying something."
[CAST + CREW]
Created by Lucy Steel and Cameron Doig
Artist: Alison Rees
Client: British Ceramics Biennial
Project Type: Artist Film
Exhibition: Award 2025, Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
Year: 2025