Adrian Jackman's new series of paintings entitled 'Mind the Gap' investigates the agricultural technique known as circular irrigation. This is a natural subject for Jackman, whose earlier work explored the landscape as something mediated and willfully debased through our total engagement with modern technology.

Adrian Jackman's new series of paintings entitled 'Mind the Gap' investigates the agricultural technique known as circular irrigation. This is a natural subject for Jackman, whose earlier work explored the landscape as something mediated and willfully debased through our total engagement with modern technology. With this new series the artist is taking on the landscape again and from a new perspective, so to speak.

The works featured in 'Mind The Gap' capture western capitalism on the grandest scale; the landscape seen from outer space. The landscape from this perspective is slightly mysterious. Describe circular irrigation to most people and they will immediately recall the kind of crop circles depicted in extraterrestrial movies and conspiracy theories. There is usually a ready explanation to this kind of enigma: in the instance of circular irrigation it is purely the pattern created by irrigation sprinklers which enables these abstract and slightly haphazardly constructed landscapes.

Jackman has worked from public domain satellite imagery in Google Maps. The quality and amount of visual information available varies considerably in this popular web application, enticing the imagination to postulate on unseen spaces.

Gaps have at one time or another invoked imaginative responses in us all. Whether it be cracks in the pavement or the narrow spaces between domestic decking floorboards. In this new series Jackman has witnessed gaps in the landscape, constructing a collection of intriging new compositions that are certain to strike an imaginative chord with his audience.