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Lament
2009

Single screen moving image installation, artist monograph and still images, created at various locations on the Anglo/Scots borderline. First exhibted at Casa Artelor, Timisoara, Romania March 2009, curated by Ileana Pintilie.

'Lament' was published by Nowhere Arts in February 2009. It is available here. A DVD and a selection of printed stills are available from the artist's studio

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Fingals Cave
2008

3 screen moving image installation created during numerous visits to Fingals Cave - a remote sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa off the West coast of Mull. Foksal Gallery / Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland 2008, curated by Jaromir Jedlenski.

Three high definition projectors and surround sound system. A DVD and a selection of printed stills are available from the artist's studio.

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Ruskin's Feather
2008

Sparrowhawk feather found in Ruskin's garden, while on a residency at Ruskin's home at Brantwood in the Lake District. See my Weblog entries for this residency.

L/E Still image, from a moving image work in progress.

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Green Man
2008

Oak, hazel, beech, ash and maple leaves, on a foliate head.

Single screen, high def, 4 mins 38s

View Quicktime: Green Man (4m 38s loop) 7.6 MB

Contact Rushes
2007
hamilton & ashrowan

150 video portraits created during Richard Demarco's 2007 cultural visits to Poland and Romania

Four plinth-mounted screens, portrait orientation, around 4 minutes each screen, Scottish National Portrait Gallery 2007 and Fabryka Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, 2007

View Quicktime: Contact Rushes (4 clips at bottom of page)

Evanescence - Ice/Thaw
2007
hamilton & ashrowan

Filmed at an ice lake at Vaavatnet in Norway, the work is in 5 individual 'movements' containing detailed visual meditations opon melting ice and ice beneath water.

4 screens wall mounted together in a horizontal line.

View Quicktime: Evanescence (5 clips at bottom of page)

A Landscape Symphony in 22 movements
2005/2006
hamilton & ashrowan

The work is based upon the site of Rumbling Bridge in Perthshire, where the painter J.E.Millais painted 'The Sound of Many Waters' in 1876. The work was originally produced for the opening of the Threshold artspace at Perth Concert Hall, to be displayed across the Threshold framework (a digital canvas of 22 large LCD screens, two projectors , 8 smaller screens and a floor-based speaker system).

25 minute sequence of 22 high definition video 'movements' stretched across a digital canvas 22 metres (or 28,000 pixels) wide.

View Quicktime: A Landscape Symphony in 22 Movements (4 clips at bottom of page)

The Windmills of Innerleithen
2004
hamilton & ashrowan

The Windmills of Innerleithen is an immersive cinematic environment, with looped, multi-channel projections on 3 walls and surround sound. It premiered in a micro cinema we set up for one week within an empty shop on the high street of the Scottish Borders town of Innerleithen.

20 minute lopped film using 3 projectors.

View Quicktime: the Windmills of Innerleithen (4 clips)

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