Line and Length (2003)
Temporary public art commission


Compton Verney is a country house and estate in Warwickshire, England. The building is set in 200 acres of Capability Brown landscape.
Based on a commission to design a walking project for the estate, Line and Length was a collaboration with golf course architect Steve
Ritson to design a full 18 hole championship golf course on the Brown landscape and surrounding farmland (part of the original estate).

Drawing on the highly legislated nature and aesthetic of much of the land around the house, the work imposed a further artificial structure
over that landscape by inviting a professional from a different field to lightly mark out their own vision for the site, as a means of navigating it.

For one day only, 18 yellow golf flags and tees discretely marked out the landscape - some on clearings, some in ploughed fields, a few
in dense clumps of trees. A plan was be provided so that people could walk the course, alongside a hole by hole commentary on the necessary
alteration which would be needed to be made to the landscape in order to realise each hole.