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The 41-year-old, who now lives in Berlin, has been nominated for his solo exhibitions No Medals, No Ribbons and Modern Art Oxford and Enclosures at Camden Art Centre.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2023

For Griffiths, the poet who best represented the move from a supposedly free-roaming England to one of patchworked agricultural exclusion was John Clare: "The Enclosures spiked the nest of Clare's psyche," she writes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2013

A solution occurred to me: For coastal cities, we should try a system I call OMEGA: Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2012

Don Ross, founder and chairman of Cardinal Shower Enclosures, offers a particularly telling example.

From New York Times • May 25, 2012

It is a flat place, that before the Enclosures Acts was a heath, with good road frontages throughout, an important point where small-holdings are concerned.

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider