WORK SHOP ABOUT SWAP EDITIONS OBJECT | MULTIPLE
> SHONA SEAWEED CYANOTYPES
A series of prints made by placing seaweed from Loch Moidart on to cyanotype coated paper and leaving out to expose in the Scottish sunshine. These works were made while on a residency at Eilean Shona a wilderness island in West Scotland.
The island was the perfect setting to combine analogue photographic processes with physical forms and tactile surfaces, enabling me to create prints from a very sculptural mentality. Being away from the digital world seemed the ideal place to look back and play with camera-less processes like Sir John Herschel’s cyanotype printing as used to by Anna Atkins an English botanist and photographer in the latter part of the 19th century. The mass of Seaweed that blanketed the shores of the island created an intriguing sculptural landscape. I’d pick up a large mass of seaweed and dump it on the cyanotype paper and let the sun to do it’s thing. Unlike Atkins I was not concerned with pictorial documentation - I liked the sprawling density of the large blue prints with only subtle suggestions of their seaweed origin.
A series of prints made by placing seaweed from Loch Moidart on to cyanotype coated paper and leaving out to expose in the Scottish sunshine. These works were made while on a residency at Eilean Shona a wilderness island in West Scotland.
The island was the perfect setting to combine analogue photographic processes with physical forms and tactile surfaces, enabling me to create prints from a very sculptural mentality. Being away from the digital world seemed the ideal place to look back and play with camera-less processes like Sir John Herschel’s cyanotype printing as used to by Anna Atkins an English botanist and photographer in the latter part of the 19th century. The mass of Seaweed that blanketed the shores of the island created an intriguing sculptural landscape. I’d pick up a large mass of seaweed and dump it on the cyanotype paper and let the sun to do it’s thing. Unlike Atkins I was not concerned with pictorial documentation - I liked the sprawling density of the large blue prints with only subtle suggestions of their seaweed origin.
> SHONA SEAWEED CYANOTYPE No.1
> SHONA SEAWEED CYANOTYPE No.2
> SHONA SEAWEED CYANOTYPE No.3
> SHONA SEAWEED CYANOTYPE No.4
> SHONA SEAWEED CYANOTYPE No.5
|
|
|
|
> EILEAN SHONA RESIDENCY MARCH 2024
These cyanotype works were made while on a residency at Eilean Shona in Scotland in March 2024. Read more about my month alone on a wilderness island here >
These cyanotype works were made while on a residency at Eilean Shona in Scotland in March 2024. Read more about my month alone on a wilderness island here >