Snow provokes responses reaching back to childhood. Historically many painted and photographic works have documented the epic beauty and wilderness of the land under snow; Sisley, Turner, and Ansel Adams to name a few. The White Station brings together works in which artists have experimented with snow as a physical material, for it’s potential to shape and engage us in its physicality. Photographs by Andy Goldsworthy document ‘Midsummer Snowballs’, an incongruous siting of large snowballs placed in the City of London. Helen Chadwick’s notorious ‘Piss Flowers’ were formed by imprints taken of patterns made by the artist and her husband urinating into the snow. These images document the making of the work and include a poem by Chadwick.
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