Landfall
Donald Urquhart
11 October – 22 November 2003

The landscapes he records are divided and structured, broken by lines which both distance us from the scene depicted and rationalise our gaze.”
Francis McKee Walking the Bounds” from Fields, 2001

Landfallwas a project commissioned by The Changing Room that brought together Donald Urquhart’s gallery work with work for non-gallery contexts for the first time.  Urquhart deals with the landscape and meeting points between rural and urban experience. It reflects his fascination with our relationship to landscape – both in it’s representation through art and in response to our use and management of the environment. Landfall related to specific local topography and extended to sites outside the gallery space.

Works in the gallery included a sculptural floor piece relating to the River Forth and a series of wall-mounted photographs of skies washed with oil paint to different degrees of visibility. He also made a series of drawings and paintings that incorporated the gallery wall through gaps between pieces to emphasise the partial and fragmentary nature of the depicted subject matter.

Reaching out of the gallery space was an audio work flooding into the shopping arcade from the entrance to the gallery. A new drawing of the rock surrounding Stirling Castle was commissioned for the centre double page of the Stirling Observer, the local paper, and ran for two consecutive issues.

A pack of 6 postcards of Urquhart’s work with an essay by Gavin Morrison accompanied this exhibition (£3). Available from the gallery.

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Exhibition supported by Scottish Arts Council, Stirling Observer and Edinburgh College of Art.

Toured to Taigh Chearsabagh, North Uist.

Installation View