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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Darkened colour photograph showing the Auckland skyline and Sky Tower in silhouette across calm harbour water, with a heavy dark cloud mass above and low dawn colour reflected below.
    Dark City
  • Black-and-white vertical photograph of a glowing geometric cluster of connected lights in a dark sky above a textured vertical path of reflected light on dark ground.
    qube

  • Blurred square photograph looking forward through a tunnel. Bright overhead lights stretch into long converging rays of warm amber and orange towards a small white exit at the centre, with dark walls rushing past on either side.
    Tunnelling
  • Black-and-white landscape photograph of Ben Nevis beyond part of the Aonach Eagach ridge of Glencoe in silhouette, with the snow-patched summit faintly lit against a near-black sky.
    Dark Nevis, Lochaber
    (7:28pm Thursday 21st April 2005)

  • A digital abstract painting in deep red, cobalt blue, and purple, with a central demon-like face outlined in white emerging from swirling forms, and gold wave patterns visible in the corners.
    Devil In The Detail (2024)
  • Abstract digital painting of a large blue shield-like shape framed by thick red lines against a dark maroon ground with faint photographic traces visible beneath, featuring fragmented black halftone text spelling "kettle" across the top and pale yellow linear marks suggesting a handle or spout below.
    Kettle (2021)

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