‘Andrew Rucklidge’s fantastic landscapes are stuffed with memories of past and future things. Some are full of a psychedelic, utopian architecture where Disneyland, Las Vegas, Archigram, Sant’Elia and the Beatles in their Yellow Submarine are in the process of building a different land of tomorrow. (…) paintings that hover between two possible resolutions; one, the facile fantasy of landscape, of escape into distant realms that are laid out for the comfortable spectator’s enjoyment, a complacent relationship between the real and the unreal; the other, a more troubled sense of a world seen as if it were functioning, viable, shifting the landscape from the romantic to the modern…’

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‘Andrew Rucklidge’s fantastic landscapes are stuffed with memories of past and future things. Some are full of a psychedelic, utopian architecture where Disneyland, Las Vegas, Archigram, Sant’Elia and the Beatles in their Yellow Submarine are in the process of building a different land of tomorrow. (…) paintings that hover between two possible resolutions; one, the facile fantasy of landscape, of escape into distant realms that are laid out for the comfortable spectator’s enjoyment, a complacent relationship between the real and the unreal; the other, a more troubled sense of a world seen as if it were functioning, viable, shifting the landscape from the romantic to the modern…’