Avant Gardeners: C&C at the Stables, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Liz McGowan works with natural and found materials, creating responses to particular environments through installation, sculpture, drawing and conversation. "My personal concerns are about containment and expansion, about cycles of growth, change and decay, and about the shifting relationship between us and the world in which we are immersed."

Her focus is the meeting point between inner and outer landscapes, where personal creativity is given inspiration and form by those elements – stone, reed, tree, earth, tideline – that combine to form a landscape.

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