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Cartoon epics and the dramatised wild frontier permeate Blaise Drummond’s latest works. It might be cowboy versus Indian in one or remembered film versus reality in another. Overall, these pieces play out over a shrinking natural plain as history and myth wither under the heat of the sun.

Landscape and portrait are two world views domesticated into our smartphone world but borrowed from art history and art practice. Drummond plays with subtle portraits of landscapes – both historical and fictional. We are not talking about aspect ratio, rather, about a way in which terrain is captured. His …