Could We Dream in Colour... is our final exploration of our 2025 theme of Land. It is an investigation into the politics of land use and ownership, exploring the complicated relationship between land, power and belonging that underpin our everyday lives. Using creative tactics, this collaboration between James Fox and Dave Shooter disrupts the idea that land is only something to be measured, owned or enclosed.

Working across sound, embroidery, print and film, Could We Dream in Colour... challenges our ideas about land; as property, as resource, as environment. Through acts of artistic re-mapping, the works disrupt both visible and invisible borders.

It is also a proposal. The work gestures toward alternative ways of experiencing place and lays the foundation for more inclusive, just and communal ways of being in and with the world. In doing so, Could We Dream in Colour... points toward the possibility of a ‘Romantic Revolution’ of the land through creative action and political re-imagination.