Trappenkamp

This artwork featured in Tell it to the Trees (2009). 

Originally commissioned by Tate Britain in 2008 and shown in the urban surroundings of central London’s Millbank, Trappenkamp was rethought and reworked by the artists of Croft. It lurked in the undergrowth, in a picturesque Herefordshire wooded valley, like some forgotten folly.

Taking the form of a decaying yet artificial ruin, Trappenkamp reflects the artist’s fascination with the boundaries between nature and technology, kitsch and sublime, planning and happenstance.

The structure is clad in plywood – a material made from pulped wood – reshaped with glues to look like ‘real’ wood; it is decorated with emblems designed and cut with a digital program to recreate a hand-carved style.

Fishpool valley, with its string of ponds, was landscaped and densely planted in the early 19th century in the Picturesque style to suggest ‘the bold roughness of nature’.

Image: Juneau Projects, Trappenkamp, installation view, Tell it to the Trees, Croft Castle, 2009. Image courtesy of Meadow Arts. Photographer, Stefan Handy.

 

About the artist

Juneau Projects

Juneau Projects exhibited in Tell it to the Trees, Croft Castle, 2009.

In the summer of 2022, Juneau Projects co-created a sculpture trail with the young people from Pershore Riverside Centre which represent the wildlife that can be found at Avon Meadows which is located next to the youth centre.

Image: Juneau Projects in Pershore (2023). Image courtesy Meadow Arts. Photographer: Tegen Kimbley.