2026
Little Toller
Softcover
156 pages
275 × 220 mm
‘There is something profoundly moving about the idea of Reverse Sod Swap, both literally and metaphorically.’
Cornelia Parker
For The Sculpture Show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1983, artist David Nash created Sod Swap, a land art intervention which exchanged a circle of turf from his native North Wales with the lawn at London’s Kensington Gardens. Nash was exploring ideas of place and what sculpture could be. Forty years later, artist Mike Perry’s Reverse Sod Swap is less concerned with the materiality of sculpture and more with Britain’s changing ecologies. By contrasting the loss of flora species in our farmed countryside with the enlightened rewilding of our urban parks Perry’s work suggests ‘wildness’ may need to be redefined.
Published by Little Toller. Includes a conversation between Mike Perry and David Nash, shaped by David Alston, and texts by Nicholas Thornton, Ben Tufnell, Anna Souter, Richard Fisher, and Lee Schofield.
