Dorset Innovation Park (SEZ) Studio version 2025 – 51 x 180 x 278cm, plastic, flowers, plaster, plexiglas, plants, video, photographs, spray paint, acrylic paint, paint can, wood, aluminium, wire, taxidermy (toad), reproductions, soapstone, marmer
Dorset Innovation Park is a deregulated Enterprise Zone or Special Economic Zone. Dorset Innovation Park is developing as an engineering cluster for the South West in marine, defence, energy and cyber-security.
US Blackrock now have PM Keir Starmer’s official endorsement of a govt partnership, which is primed to move in on ‘natures assets’, green spaces are to be identified as tradeable commodities, this expands Blackrock’s portfolio to include nature as an economic profit-based asset.
Arch Brexiter and Liz Truss supporter Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax is a Tory MP who likes parking his landrover across disabled parking spaces and is one of the richest politicians in Parliament worth £150 million.
Drax still owns and grows sugar on the same Drax Hall Estate in Barbados that made the family’s fortune. Over 200 years, 30,000 slaves died at this and the other Drax plantations, according to Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair of CARICOM’s Reparations Commission. “The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other”, he said. Drax’s lives in his family’s ancestral seat, Charborough House – a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. He is the largest individual landowner in Dorset, owning approximately 13,870 acres (5,610 ha), equivalent to 2% of the land in Dorset. He also owns the 2,200-acre (890 ha) Ellerton Abbey farming estate in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, and the nearby 520-acre (210 ha) Copperthwaite Allotment grouse moor. Sunak and Starmer’s 74 deregulated SEZs and 12 Freeports includes Dorset Innovation Park which is also the site of a multi-million pound investment by the Ministry of Defence, Dorset LEP.
