Alliance against road building

PRESS RELEASE – 7th June 2005

Groups opposing road building are holding a web-based exhibition of landscapes under threat to coincide with the exhibition ‘A Picture of Britain’ at Tate Britain this June. The web-based exhibition will run from the beginning of June and can be found on the Road Block website.

‘A Picture of Britain’ will be a major show exploring how the British landscape has inspired artists for three hundred years and how these artists have come to define the way in which we view the landscape. The parallel ‘Landscapes Under Threat’ exhibition will feature paintings and photographs of scenes that are under threat from current plans for new roads. It will be a reminder that the landscape is more than a museum piece, and its shape is largely determined by policy decisions.

Rebecca Lush of Road Block said:

“Landscapes Under Threat will highlight how treasured landscapes are still valuable today, and cannot be permanently ruined for the sake of 10 minutes off a car journey, or for a short-term answer to congestion. Currently there are over 200 road schemes planned around the country. Transport is also the fastest growing source of CO2 emissions, and climate change would devastate the landscape of Britain further.”

The online exhibition will run through June on the Road Block website.