Dolores de Sade

De Sade's landscapes deal with memory and nostalgia. Her work focuses on the normally unnoticed places. Highway shoulders, public footpaths, windowsills and front gardens all transform into landscapes.

"I am interested in what landscape means to us today, exploring our experience of such and what it means to us in the digital age. Influenced by eighteenth and nineteenth century book and periodical illustration, I am interested in ways that information is given the authority of knowledge and how knowledge is transposed through memory, nostalgia and archetype.

I see parallels between the challenges brought about by the sudden plethora of images and information that new printing techniques and the early beginnings of mass media in the eighteenth and nineteenth century brought about, and those of GoogleMaps and our own digital age."

Her work is held in many public collections including Victoria and Albert Museum, British Library, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal College of Art, Ashmolean Museum, Ministry of Culture, Thailand and Guanglan and Guangdong Museums, China.