Sam Clayton and Mark Jacobs

As a student on the 'Art as Environment' course at Manchester Met, Sam explored the representation of space and place through maps and models. He catalogued 'non-spaces' around Sheffield, those not worth mapping, anonymous horizontal wastes. He has also created forms that intervene unexpectedly in familiar places, referencing the romantic, the verdant landscape.

Mark's engagement with the landscape comes from the human angle, building vehicles with which he could transport the trappings of domestic life to a wilderness, creating the life of a romantic traveller who doesn't exist - inventing histories rather than science.

His experience working for English Heritage has brought him into close contact with the conservation of the historic landscape. He also co-founded 'Art in the Tower' in York, the restoration of a derelict 16th. century tower along the city walls to function as an art gallery.

Through this residency, they want to develop a collaborative practice, exploring issues around the perception of landscape and the way humans move and behave within landscape spaces. Yorkshire Sculpture Park provides a particularly suitable location for their work. As a landscape of pleasure, it has, and still is, undergoing a continuous process of change. The artists plan to explore the mapping of spatial information, the disruption of the audience's perceptions, and interventions in familiar routes.