‘Pwll’ refers to the ‘Pool of the Ox’s eye, Llyn Y Foel which lies on the shoulder of Moel Siabod. In folklore, the lake was formed from the stream of tears shed from the Oxen that pulled the Afanc across towards Snowdon. ‘Pwll’ is an examination of a landscape heavily intertwined with history and legend. Industry, monoliths and monocultures riddle the place, every hillside has been worked. Wildflowers don’t grow and slate rains down the mountains. The heavily trodden hilltops hide an industrial past, one that exists in the dripping tunnels that cuts through the slate. With North Wales as a focus, the work is almost fictitious, telling of a place that exists in stories. A droll landscape.

Jake Husband (b.2000), is a photographer and photo/lighting assistant. Working primarily with artists, organisations and collections, he’s producing a variety of work within the art world. In personal work and long-form projects, his work examines the British landscape. By profiling sections, he dives deep into the history, mythologies and human histories of a place and sets about documenting this often using analogue technologies. By doing so, keeping himself firmly rooted within the traditions of photography.