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Howler's Hill

ARNATT, Keith

Howler's Hill
Image: © Keith Arnatt Estate. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Keith Arnatt used his camera, and a detailed knowledge of art history, to embed entirely ordinary objects with new meaning. This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken at Howler’s Hill – a landfill site near the Forest of Dean – that confronts the impact of our throw-away society. Under the warm, early evening light, the rotting piles become something arresting, even beautiful. Bulging binbags and, cardboard boxes and even a tangled string of fairy lights take on all the emotion and grandeur of 16th-century Baroque oil paintings.

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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 14113

Creation/Production

ARNATT, Keith

Acquisition

Purchase, 25/4/1989

Techniques

Photograph
Fine Art - works on paper

Material

Photograph

Location

on display
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