Jen Dixon an artist and writer who follows lost or obstructed lines in the landscape, particularly in urban environments. 

The included collages respond to the River Tame in north Birmingham, a highly urbanised and frequently disregarded waterway, and reconfigure the entanglement of nature and infrastructure along the river. In attending to the Tame, I am attentive to its quiet exclusion from dominant pastoral narratives of English rivers – a subtle politics of visibility in which industrial waterways are neglected both materially and imaginatively. 

The collages are taken from a 29-page altered book, formerly titled Rivers of England and Wales but re-named An Altered River. By intervening in a publication that overlooked the Tame, I enact a form of repair through re-narration. The book is written as if by the river itself: a meandering, non-linear voice that attempts to comprehend the shifting world above. Through collage, the river is repositioned not as a backdrop to development, but as a witness, agent, and ancient presence. 

These works function as small acts of ritual attention, reconfiguring a disregarded landscape as a site of reverence and pilgrimage.