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Oxted Quarry was shut in 2012. It has been used since 2006 by Southern Gravel Limited as a dumping ground for inert building waste I.E rubble.
Before that its history is a bit of a mystery to me. It was chalk quarry, it is located on the North Downs in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, It had been operational as far back as the 1960's (yet to determine exact date)
Around 2014 Southern Gravel Limited, who still owned the site whilst not in operation there, submitted plans to develop the site into 27 residential homes on the basis that revenue was needed in order to reclaim the land. Permission has yet to, and is unlikely to ever be, granted.
I am an artist with an unhealthy interest in quarries and sandpits. A big influence of mine is American land-artist Robert Smithson. Smithson wrote an article in 1967 about revisiting his hometown, whereby he detailed certain new-monuments such as bits of leftover industrial equipment and incomplete sections of Interstate highway being the relics/ruins of a post-industrial generation.
I re-visited my hometown of Oxted in order to find my 'monuments'. I later discovered, after visiting and documenting Oxted Quarry, that Robert Smithson had in fact visited the Surrey site in 1969 to produce a piece of Land-Art within the grounds! (see last picture)
Below details my findings of a place trapped in limbo and with two distinct timelines: One of a chalk quarry slowly transforming into an idyllic & enclosed garden of Eden; another a mistreated and forgotten industrial site awaiting salvation.
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"many machines were not working, and this caused them to resemble prehistoric creatures trapped in the mud, or, better, extinct machines-mechanical dinosaurs stripped of their skin" Smithson, Robert: A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic,New Jersey 1967.
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MOD helicopter rotor blades in their original packaging. Odd find for a quarry.
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Chalk-Mirror-Displacement. 1969. Robert Smithson
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Before that its history is a bit of a mystery to me. It was chalk quarry, it is located on the North Downs in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, It had been operational as far back as the 1960's (yet to determine exact date)
Around 2014 Southern Gravel Limited, who still owned the site whilst not in operation there, submitted plans to develop the site into 27 residential homes on the basis that revenue was needed in order to reclaim the land. Permission has yet to, and is unlikely to ever be, granted.
I am an artist with an unhealthy interest in quarries and sandpits. A big influence of mine is American land-artist Robert Smithson. Smithson wrote an article in 1967 about revisiting his hometown, whereby he detailed certain new-monuments such as bits of leftover industrial equipment and incomplete sections of Interstate highway being the relics/ruins of a post-industrial generation.
I re-visited my hometown of Oxted in order to find my 'monuments'. I later discovered, after visiting and documenting Oxted Quarry, that Robert Smithson had in fact visited the Surrey site in 1969 to produce a piece of Land-Art within the grounds! (see last picture)
Below details my findings of a place trapped in limbo and with two distinct timelines: One of a chalk quarry slowly transforming into an idyllic & enclosed garden of Eden; another a mistreated and forgotten industrial site awaiting salvation.
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"many machines were not working, and this caused them to resemble prehistoric creatures trapped in the mud, or, better, extinct machines-mechanical dinosaurs stripped of their skin" Smithson, Robert: A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic,New Jersey 1967.
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MOD helicopter rotor blades in their original packaging. Odd find for a quarry.
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Chalk-Mirror-Displacement. 1969. Robert Smithson
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