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Working on a lil project.

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a photo series, some of which is included in https://www.creativeflowart.com/online-exhibition?fbclid=IwAR1GZO0JCugHkc_WnPm-kDCWyhGWUTrCQVx6pJrzq25zk9M94dQw1VYnB2M

This image series is one that I started a while back and have continued during lockdown strolls. I’ve been reflecting on how it’s become a challenge to find true breathing space, how sad it is that I search for space away from humanity in the first place. These images are all taken in different areas where I was expecting quiet but still found nature to be interrupted and overpowered. We leave nowhere untouched. I’m always working on my personal journey to feel connected with nature, but still can’t help but see humanity as ‘other’.

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My work(middle one) as part of an exhibition in Rome with Loosenart, wish I could have been there in person!

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Have this piece on display in Rome next month! Wish I could be there but will hopefully get sent some good pics. 

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Wee exhibition at Bloc Gallery, March 2020

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enjoying the freedom of making things just for fun

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REMNANTS

The missing piece to my continued practice was the immersive sense of isolation that is felt when standing in the Caledonian Forest. I visited, absorbed, and documented both the Blackwood of Rannoch and Rothiemurchus remnants of the ancient land, while also having many insightful conversations about my work and the themes of acceptance. I came to a conclusion around one of the central reasons for difficulty in considering Scotland as a ruined landscape; what’s left is still genuinely captivating. When surrounded by the remaining pieces of forest it is easy to be absorbed by this and overlook the problems it faces. It is also normal within society to see stretches of pasture as areas of beauty, however, after learning about the impact that animal agriculture has had on the loss of wild forest, I can only see them as wounds. I built my own immersive space. Replicating the feeling of being engrossed within nature, the space replicates movement through the wilderness. However, using mirror fragments, the image is again shattered to represent the reality of the situation of the last remaining genuine wilderness in Scotland. The decision to create an immersive space is supported by Yuriko Saito in the essay The Aesthetics of Unscenic Nature where it is said that “experiencing nature as a static, two-dimensional scene unduly limits our appreciation, it also misleads it”. This made me think once more about the way nature is seen as idyllic and an ‘escape’, especially from the viewpoint of city residents, when really we should have a much deeper level of respect and understanding. I wanted to build a space that overcomes the flat and pictorial level of gratitude, breaking through into understanding.

#environmental art #forest #film #installation #scotland #art #nature

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EDIT AND CENSOR, 2019

Four wall prints sit side by side, connected. The core images in these prints were all taken in the Rothiemurchus shred of Caledonian Forest, highlighting the diverse beauty that does, in fact, dwell in these small areas. Cementing the idea that there may be beauty here, from the light reflecting through the tree branches and bouncing along the surface of the loch, to the vast range of flora to be admired, but it is not a constant and it is not as common as generally assumed. Mental blocks are represented, bright, garish and unavoidable. I had the most beautiful trip in this part of the world, the weather was unusually warm and the surroundings blissful. Many would describe this as escapism. I worried about the reasons behind this exceptionally hot summer, I yearned for the parts of Scotland that should be equally as dense with life but have had it taken away. The blocks mirror shapes found within nature and within the images themselves, but are stiff and severe, mimicking the way modern society has become in the developed world. We came from nature but have evolved our way of thinking into widely believing that we are superior. They obnoxiously interrupt the main images in the way humanity interrupts nature. Lost in the loud patterns and colours within these blocks is edited destruction. They represent the damaged land that replaces the beauty they are disrupting. Images of devastated land, rings of trees that once were, fur from the wolves that should still roam, all hidden within the shapes. Mainly focussing on the damaging results of animal agriculture, deforestation extending from the industrial revolution, and the impact on new sapling growth as a consequence of overhunting predators of deer and sheep to local extinction. These issues are represented yet buried within the images, the only quiet thing about them. Akin to the way they are concealed to the public eye. When first viewed, this set could be seen as bright and overpowering, with clashes of colour and pattern. However, I feel that this aesthetic suits them. These issues do overwhelm me, they do pile on top of each other and it is difficult to contemplate one environmental issue without a flood of connected others pouring into mind. As a species we edit nature. Information against the egotistical battle of progress for humanity is censored. Often blocked is the part of our minds that admits the full extent of the environmental crisis, and allows us to accept that we must become ecologically responsible.

#environmental art #scottish artist #scotland #eco art #photography #nature #caledonian forest #colour #glitch art

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Disillusion and Space for Reflection

I can no longer see nature as a never-ending, tranquil escape. We have left nowhere untouched. In Scotland, due to human actions, only traces of the Caledonian Forest remain.

Remnants, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh 2019.

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broken landscapes

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experiments

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Film stills from a collaborative piece exploring fragility, the body becomes a self-destructing dystopian landscape. Thinking about humans causing climate change can feel abstract and hard to comprehend, we try to simplify and magnify these issues. 

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Interactive landscapes 

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Experimenting with making kaleidoscopes using my own nature photographs. Thinking about the idea of creating and immediately destroying a unique landscape (composition of images). Replicating the destruction that happens in the real world, reflecting on our use of power. 

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Testimony From The Rocks, ASN Group Exhibition

An Lanntair, Stornoway 

Listen to the Water, Don’t Interrupt the Tide

We leave no landscape untouched, we are too tuned in to the noise to fully consider our destruction.

Luskentyre beach is an ethereal experience. Yet I became distracted with human clutter, and reflect on my visit with regret for not taking it all in.

A piece exploring the feeling of being unable to fully enjoy the experience of a landscape due to awareness of humanities’ destruction. Thinking about this experience in relation to the wider picture of the general population’s lack of reaction to environmental issues. A general sense of denial or conscious choice to remain oblivious, the noise of modern life that drowns out the real issues.  

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