Alan Hockett uses his artistic practice to explore marginal landscapes, peripheries, Edge lands. Areas always changing and evolving with industrial or social decline having fallen into disuse and dereliction and are now slowly being reclaimed by the forces of nature, or regenerated for social economic reasons
He strives to involve and engage the community that he’s creating work around whether its walking the Essex coastline using a baked bean tin, or capturing Jaywick, in its heyday as a holiday retreat using photographs, films and memories of its residents. He engages with the local communities.