Since first visiting Avebury stone circle in 2017, Daniel & Clara's practice has focused on place, landscape and nature as a subject. In their ongoing body of work about this ancient neolithic site, they explore the human need to make sense of their place in the universe through making art and telling stories.

Using photographs taken on their first visit to the stone circle, they stain and pour fluid colour over the black & white pictures, transforming them into unique artefacts, each capturing multiple moments of time.

There is the moment the photos were taken, as the artist stood before the great sarsen monoliths, and the time seven years later when they applied colour paint to the images. Then there are the timescales of the stones themselves, as they stand now, five thousand years after neolithic people erected them in the Wiltshire landscape, and, of course, the vast unthinkable eons of geological time in which these stones were formed in the earth.

“Our Avebury work is often a way of thinking about the past and how we humans make sense of our place in the world and in the universe. It's about that impulse to mark our presence in some way, by raising a stone circle, taking a photograph or making marks in paint. All these actions express our need to say 'I exist, I was here'.”

- Daniel & Clara

- Susan Owens, ‘Avebury’, Daniel & Clara Landscape Imaginary (2022)