Anna Wilkinson

My section of Hadrian’s Wall is an area I know well having grown up there. There is little remains of the wall here as the stones were reused to build the farms and houses as well as Lanercost Priory – part ruin and part parish church. Lanercost lies just a short distance south of the line of Hadrian’s Wall. It is an Augustinian Priory – built when Hadrian’s Wall would have been around 1000 years old.

My image uses an antique engraving published in “The Border Antiques of England and Scotland” which is based upon an original painting by Luke Clennell – an apprentice to Thomas Bewick). Lanercost Priory, Clennell’s painting, the antique engraving and now my image all re-appropriating that which went before.

I am interested in old engravings, especially those that present a Romantic view of landscape. I have been making a series of photographs of framed antique prints – looking at how the reflections and shadows at times highlight and obscure aspects of the original image. Notions of mirroring, copying and repetition being integral to the act of printmaking.