Utilising a broad range of media including tableau, models, sculpture, books, drawings, video and sound the visually rich and intellectually complex work of David Ryan’s project is characterised by a laconic humour. Thinking about archives and museums underpins much of his work as it examines the ambiguities of what defines the line between the interaction with landscape as journey, and the recording of the landscape as fragmented works that sift through many references, narratives, analogies and unsuspected correspondences.