Fon Uachdar/Beneath the Surface
Katie Harris-MacLeod
Shaun Fraser
Opening event: from 5:00pm Friday 14th July 2023
Open 15th to 28th July 2023, 11am to 5pm Mon to Sat.
Curated by Jon Macleod
New work from multidisciplinary Scottish Australian contemporary artist Katie Harris-Macleod. She has lived and worked across the Hebrides of Scotland and the rural Highlands of Argyll, each landscape and its people becoming a palimpsest of memory and time. She has been awarded a wide variety of international study tours and residencies across Scotland, Ireland, France, and most recently, the ecologically diverse landscape of South East Queensland, Australia.
Shaun's work frequently comments upon notions of identity, links to landscape and connections with place. The Scottish Highland landscape in which he was brought up is a constant source of inspiration to him. Landscape has always featured heavily as a part of his notion of self. There’s a certain sense of fidelity which when attached to this topography, is elemental.
Katie Harris-Macleod
In this series of drawings MacLeod explores notions of deep time, the more-than-human, bodily memory, identity and fidelity to place. Nuanced layers of memory trapped inside her body, adrift and fragmented finally begin to pour out. Ghostly beings ebb and flow in symbiosis, forming one continuous line. Rocks, minerals, sea salt, lichens and tree sap gathered from specific landscapes in which MacLeod defined herself by, are used to draw and map the beginnings of the process of letting these memories and places go.
Each drawing is 20cm x 20cm and has been drawn on 300gsm hand made Cotton Rag Paper. Shown above are 87 drawings which intend to form one large continuous artwork.
Memories
Katie Harris-Macleod
Ink on paper
Glass (2017)
Shaun Fraser
