Gareth McConnell: The Horses History 'Visual artist’ is a term

'Visual artist’ is a term with untold interpretations

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curator and writer Yang Beichen’s text builds upon his research into Cao Fei’s studio

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Gareth McConnell: The Horses History 'Visual artist’ is a termWhen Gareth McConnell was commissioned by the New York Times to photograph the wild horses of Iceland there was an apocalyptic feeling in the air from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, food shortages and the climate emergency. Guided by this feeling and not knowing much about the subject he took two referenve points with him; Edwin Muir's haunting poem The Horses and KLF member and pop shaman Bill Drummond's belief that a cosmic ley line comes Earth in