Hambach (protest) 6.527

Original painting, included in my solo exhibition Slow Creep at Project 78 Gallery.

acrylic ink and gouache on board
560 x 376mm
2024

In the spring of 2024, I plotted a line of latitude (50.8518) through Project 78 Gallery on the south coast of England and followed it eastward online, creating a route
for a hypothetical circumnavigation—a virtual journey that would yield the imagery from which to make an exhibition. The impossible tour crossed 19 countries and two oceans—traversing cities, agricultural land, wilderness, mountains and lakes while locating multiple sites of cultural production, extractivism, protest, conflict, dispossession, extraterrestrial exploration, leisure and recreation.

Read more at https://jamieatherton.com/slow-creep/

Painting based on photosphere images from Google Earth, taken at a protest at Tagebau Hambach in Germany, one of the largest open pit lignite mines in Europe.