Structures of Forgotten Origin is a new collaborative project, with photographer Lee Milne, born out of cycling during the first UK lockdown in 2020. It brings together both artists shared interests across photographic printmaking, photography and long distance cycling to explore ideas of the periphery, loss and preservation of memory through a field study of historic and contemporary landscape.

The project aims to circumnavigate London’s Metropolitan Green Belt by bicycle locating the 200+ coal-tax posts erected by the City of London in the mid-19th Century to mark the boundary where taxes on coal were due. The posts, cast in a variety of different materials, form a circular network of 20 miles radius around the city, some of which have disappeared due to urban development, vandalism and theft and changes to land use through human intervention and geomorphology. It is these specific sites that will provide the initial mapping for the cycle route.

This project has not yet begun as it requires time, space and money to develop.