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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

Landscape

Who possesses this landscape?
The man who bought it or
I who am possessed by it?

Norman MacCaig, ‘A Man In Assynt’

LANDSCAPE brings together photographs made across Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand, grounded in the lived experience of being in the land.

  • Near-black black-and-white landscape at Loch Lomond, Scotland, with misty hillsides barely visible on the far shore and a single fallen branch lying in still shallow water.
    Silver Bough, Loch Lomond
    (4:34pm Friday 10th December 2004)

  • Black-and-white landscape photograph of dark, jagged hills on the Isle of Skye under a heavy clouded sky. A narrow band of light falls across a sloping valley, while large rock forms sit in deep shadow.
    The Prison, Isle of Skye
    (9.30am Friday 5th August 2005)
  • Colour coastal landscape at Motukiekie, New Zealand, with orange sunset over the Tasman Sea, white surf sweeping across dark sand, offshore rocks, a tree-covered cliff and a smooth foreground rock anchoring the foreground.
    Motukiekie Sunset
    Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Near-black black-and-white landscape in Glen Alladale, Scotland, with a lone Scots pine in silhouette and snow-covered craggy mountains partly obscured by darkness, mist, driven snow and blizzard behind it.
    Lone Pine, Glen Alladale
    (2:06pm Friday 31st December 2004)

  • Near-black black-and-white landscape of Loch Lomond, with a dark conifer treeline in the foreground, mist lying in horizontal bands across water and wooded islands, and layered hills beyond.
    Misty Darkness II, Loch Lomond
    (4:49pm Saturday 2nd April 2005)
  • Black-and-white landscape photograph across Lochan na h-Achlaise, with ice-patterned shallows, winter shrubs, boulders, still water, reflected trees and snow-covered Blackmount peaks beyond.
    Frozen Landscape, Blackmount
    (10:43am Sunday 19th February 2006)

Galleries

Colour landscape photograph of Loch Katrine, Scotland, with a sunlit wooded island, autumn-flecked forest, Ben Venue, blue sky and white clouds reflected in still mirror-like water as morning fog clears.

Singular Landscapes

Black-and-white landscape photograph of a snow-dusted mountain in Glen Alladale, lit by a pale shaft of light against a near-black sky, with small trees in deep shadow at its base

Alba Dubh