Some of the most exciting and challenging work being produced today comes from artists who place themselves in borderlands, places that reflect and absorb the often extreme characteristics of adjoining territories. Paul Goodrick makes work from such a position: his struggle is with the tensions that occur between the urban and the natural environments, summed up in his notion of the Green Cube. He questions the possibilities of interaction between the man-made and the natural, indeed querying just what 'natural' really means in the 21st century.

Paul's fascination with this place of apparently opposing forces is one that is currently being faced at social and political levels in our society. In "New Deigns in Arcadia" in the relative seclusion of his own small woodland -cum-studio, just out of sight of a rapidly encroaching town in South England he explores the macro on the micro scale. Encountering his proposals prepares us the better for making an informal response to the wider issues of our place and responsibilities on this planet.

Jeremy Theophilus is a writer, curator and gallery director.