From 2020-21 Newcastle City Council’s parks management company undertook the felling of trees across the city. Some were deemed dangerous, too close to roads or paths and too expensive to manage, others were diseased with great holes in the centres of them. The argument presented by the management company was that every tree cut down would be replaced. Yet this fails to acknowledge the meaning particular trees hold for local people, and the role they play in local ecosystems.

Heslop is currently documenting every tree that has been felled, some of which have been translated into a series of screenprints. This work also involves the documentation of trees cut down explicitly to make way for new development. It questions what is lost through the capture of economic value from land.