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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

  • A black and white long exposure photograph of a crater-like foreground rock at Narrow Neck Beach, with the dormant volcanic island of Rangitoto as a low dark silhouette on the horizon and the water softened to mist.
    Rangitoto Echo
    Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Abstract drawing in marker, felt pen and metallic gel pen on dark navy card: interlocking forms in flat bronze and umber washes and dappled metallic gold, outlined in thick yellow, with sweeping ribbons and a low spiral, square format.
    Bronze Age
  • Black-and-white landscape photograph from the Scottish Lowlands, with two bare winter trees silhouetted on a dark ridge and a pale band of last light glowing along the horizon.
    Last Light, South Lanarkshire
    (5:59pm Friday 4th February 2005)
  • Dark abstract digital painting with overlapping blue, black, red and violet shapes, suggesting foliage, branches and partially obscured forms seen through shadow.
    Through Dark Foliage (2023)
  • Black and white panoramic photograph taken from a moving train, showing a container yard with stacks of shipping containers, industrial buildings and wet or pale ground. Motion and panoramic stitching create blurred, repeated distortions across the lower part of the image, with poles and container stacks visible across the wide frame.
    Rolling Stock 14
  • Abstract digital painting of a dark, head-like mass glowing with patches of red, orange and blue, overlaid with pale grey cube outlines and disrupted by a heavy black figure-like form moving through them against a deep brown-black background.
    Particulate Matters (2020)

Galleries

Dense abstract digital painting with layered orange, blue, black, pink, grey and white shapes, symbols and fragments suggesting creatures, maps, signs and coded forms.

PAINT

High-key black-and-white street photograph with dark figures walking through a bright white space, surrounded by curling light trails, with one distinct figure on the right.

ICM

Square black-and-white abstract photograph with a dark circular centre surrounded by tangled, orbiting white light trails. A softly illuminated form sits within the centre, while the left side remains largely black.

SHIFT

Colour long-exposure winter landscape in Glen Etive, Scotland, with dark peaty water flowing almost stout-like through blocky reddish-pink rocks into a black foreground pool, beneath bare brown hillsides, snow-dusted distant tops and a pale fading sky.

LANDSCAPE

Black-and-white urban photograph of a heavily pruned street tree beside a curved pavement, with wire mesh around its trunk, a mailbox marked 24, utility poles and overhead wires, suburban houses, hedges and bins.

URBAN