The submerged

text by Liz Wells

Michelle Sank’s practice is concerned with the notion of encountering,

collecting, and re-telling. She is interested in creating sociological

landscapes, interplays of human form and location that are

significant in their visual, sociological, cultural and psychological

nuances.

The imagery in The Submerged was produced within Mid Wales in

Abersytwyth and the surrounds, a coastal and hilly area existing at the

end of the railway line. Sank became intrigued by the way both

structures and people interacted with the urban and natural make-up

of this environment. She was drawn towards a sense of grittiness and

resolution within the geological and architectural fabric of the place,

something so often mimicked in the light, colour, dramatic skies and

the human performance within.