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Considering time as continuous and variable, real and abstract, Almond has consistently examined how our relationship to the natural world undergoes inexorable change. Attuned to layers of temporality – whether mechanical, physical or cosmological – Almond’s meditative abstraction ushers an intensified experience of time.

‘Life Line’ derives its impetus foremost from the artist’s childhood memory of fishing next to a willow tree, in a flooded mining-pit on the edge of Wigan – a resonant intertwining of industrial labour and leisurely tranquillity. Fascinated by the reflection of light upon …