Accession Code: wu0665 Title: Zig-Zag Groynes Date completed: 1987 Medium: Photograph Material: Photograph, silver gelatin Height (mm): 300 Width (mm): 405 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed, dated and inscribed with title on reverse Location Name: Ramphal Building Location Description: Cross Faculty Studies Location Floor: 3

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Godwin is interested in the history of the British landscape, particularly its usage over the centuries. She explores how human action has changed the land using images of the coastline, ancient roadways and stone circles, in which she takes familiar features from the past and present inviting us to look more closely. She took a series of photographs of the Kentish coastline in 1983 called The Saxon Shore Way which runs from Gravesend to Rye, in which she registered how the coastline really looks. Her photographs are not simply documentary but are instilled with meanings, concerned with the edge between the wild and the habitable.