This project explored the imbalance between our perception of the Scottish landscape and what could be considered the reality. I try to piece together the myriad threads that bind the tapestry of our landscape together, in an attempt to better understand what shaped it, and to question the common perceptions of what is wild or natural.
Deploying a documentary sensibility, my work as a fine art film maker and photographer looks to open discourse over our shared landscape. Looking to the actions of our past to better understand how the land affects not only our current, but also our future national identity.
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“LandSEARED – Exhibition & Photographic Works”
Photography sits alongside my film work in this long term project. Helping me to define the visual language used to explore the landscape in the film work, as well as exisitng as work in its own right.
The photographs are then treated with a kintsugi sensibility. Gold leaf being applied to the images to not only highlight areas of man induced damage or signifiers of control over that land, but also to act as a form of sympatheic repair.
These were accompanied by a video work titled Monarch of The Glen. This time based work was a video collage of different natural elements and hillsides.
This created a highly stylised and idealistic image of wild and majestic Scottish uplands. The wind turbine that has been cast in the role of Landseers stag, is a CG digital rendering, further adding to the uncanny nature of the work.
