Robin Friend – Bastard Countryside CANADA The book decontextualizes artworks

The book decontextualizes artworks

questioning power dynamics between reader and writer

Employing the tenets of an artist's book while simultaneously functioning as the first monographic publication on Robert Janitz' work

Ten years ago

their material palettes and various dimensions–which ensures readers their two-dimensional representations printed here

Robin Friend – Bastard Countryside CANADA The book decontextualizes artworksBastard Countryside is a collection of 15 years worth of exploration within the British landscape, dwelling on what Victor Hugo called the bastard countryside: somewhat ugly but bizarre, made up of two different natures. Melbourne born, London based Robin Friends large format colour images scrutinise these in between, unkempt, and often surreal marginal areas of the country, highlighting frictions between the pastoral sublime and the discarded, often