John-Martin Bramham
My practice as a visual artist is shaped by walking, looking, understanding and spending time in the outdoors. Through photography, I explore how landscape can slow us down and give a more considered, observational way of seeing. Rather than simply documenting a location, I use my work to create a sense of atmosphere, allowing familiar and unfamiliar places to become more open, abstract and reflective. Travel has a strong influence on my work. From the remote and rugged coastlines to shifting natural environments, places such as the Western Isles leave a mark on how I understand the environment, landscape, solitude, and belonging.
End of Year Project
My Degree show begins with “The River”, a standalone image created on Rannoch Moor. Several photographs of a river were printed and rearranged into a circular non-existent form, transforming a real landscape into something imagined. Using this process, the river becomes both familiar and impossible, questioning how a place can be observed, broken apart, and rebuilt. Alongside this, “The Edge” was made along the coast of the Western Isles through close observation. Looking at sand, rock, seaweed, tide marks and shifting textures, this project explores the intimate details of the coast and how they reveal ideas of place, scale and movement.
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