Spilt Milk: Martin White's first encounter with Rocombe Farm was in 1999 as a Dairy Hygiene Inspector working for the Local Authority Environmental Health Department. Through this work, he learned about the economic and social context of dairy farming, especially how agricultural policy, economies of scale and bureaucratic incursions have impacted on small dairy herds.

Martin draws an analogy between these changes in dairy farming and corresponding developments in contemporary art: 'Sacred Cows' have been lost from both the farm and the contemporary cultural debate surrounding the artworks now being installed there. My work is concerned with these shifts and the resultant displacement, loss and uncertainty.

With photographer Lisa Farris, Martin intends 'Spilt Milk' as a memorial that reflects on the consequences of these losses and provides an opportunity to renegotiate our creative relationship to both the land and to the world of contemporary art.

Lisa is a recent graduate of the MA programme at Falmouth College of Art and has in interest in portraiture, identity and media. An integral part of 'Spilt Milk,' her photography also documents the development of the work in the months leading up to the opening of the project.

Alongside his work as a Dairy Hygiene Inspector, Martin is studying for an MA in Fine Art at the University of the West of England. The Art Farm Project represents a cross-fertilisation of these two interests and an opportunity to explore in a non-urban environment issues of context in contemporary art.