"Tobogganing on the seventeenth hole’ was a photograph taken whilst I was journeying around England for my project, We English. Tandridge Golf Club is near where I grew up in Oxted and is a place where I used to toboggan as a child (in the few winters when we had snow). Creating this image involved a form of pilgrimage: a return to a landscape and experience lodged in my family history." - Simon Roberts

Roberts' We English (2007-2008) series comprises of colour landscape photographs, often taken from elevated positions, which record places where groups of people congregate for a common purpose and shared experience. Since landscape has long been used as a commodity to be consumed, I focus on leisure activities as a way of looking at England’s shifting cultural and aesthetic identity. The work is rooted in a consciousness of my own fluid attachment to my homeland and is an intentionally lyrical rendering of everyday English landscapes.