Ian Howorth - Arcadia (2019)

Arcadia has been referred to in popular culture as a utopian vision for centuries. A fictional place that is fertile and bountiful. A promised land of milk and honey. Held aloft by artists, poets, and playwrights as a depiction of one’s individual paradise. Now eroded by times' relentless indifference to change, it remains lodged in our collective psyche as a touchstone.

In, his first monograph, Ian Howorth looks to use this existing cultural framework to explore his personal connections to his own utopian ideal of ‘home’. Having relocated many times as a child before finally settling in Britain, his relationship with this concept has been fraught. Often considering himself an outsider