The stories we tell about ourselves, the stories others tell about us and the stories we tell about others.

The sculpture “Hooden Horses (3 Men of Kent)” alludes to both the East Kent Tradition of the Hooden Horse folk costume and the failed White Horse at Ebbsfleet Landmark, Mark Wallinger’s proposed monumental White Horse, sometimes called “The Angel of the South.” Between them the three horses combine a series of references to the narratives of the people who have lived, worked and passed through the County.

Kent as seen through the ghosts of the past and the possibilities of the present. As both a “Garden of England” and a “frontline.” A home, a place of nostalgia, comfort and sanctuary, of bounty and opportunity but also of injustice, neglect, division and othering.

The divisive language of Brexit, the so called culture wars, emblems of heraldry and identity juxtaposed with the everyday needs that all people share.

“An everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past, and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.” (George Orwell)