Cobcroft's current work explores the effect created by 19th Century colonial pastoralists planting European trees into cottage gardens and hedgerows throughout the New England tablelands of Northern New South Wales Australia. An unintended outcome of colonial pastoral tree planting being the slow suffusive march of trees and shrubs along fence lines, roads and creek beds. Banal, mundane landscapes which would otherwise be overlooked and forgotten are examined. Landscapes presented in a new format evoking emotion and creating a conduit to a colonial past. The colonial everyman, unseen, yet represented in an untamed faux facsimilie of the English countryside.
