Neil Dawson — Horizons (1994), Gibbs Farm

A sheet seems to float above a hillside. Yet Horizons is a steel sculpture: Neil Dawson turns the landscape into a drawing and unsettles our sense of weight. The Reel shows the work before a second video explains its illusion. Our reading: its force lies in the gap between what the eye believes and what…

Neil Dawson — Horizons, sculpture at Gibbs Farm

Neil Dawson — Horizons (1994) · Source : Avant Arte / Instagram

A sheet seems to float above a hillside. Yet Horizons is a steel sculpture: Neil Dawson turns the landscape into a drawing and unsettles our sense of weight. The Reel shows the work before a second video explains its illusion. Our reading: its force lies in the gap between what the eye believes and what the material allows.

Video and image : Avant Arte, Instagram (2026) ; Tom Scott, Facebook (2022). Source and documentation