New Member Clive Brandon
New MemberDetails
| First Name | Clive |
| Last Name | Brandon |
| Username | clive-brandon |
| Website | |
| Region | Highlands |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Painting |
| Themes | Abstract, Architecture, Environment, Geometric, Landscape, Site-specific |
Statement
| Statement | I am a visual artist based on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands, working primarily with painting and collage. My work explores the idea of the constructed landscape: places that appear natural but have been shaped and reshaped by human activity. I am interested in the ways landscapes are altered through intervention, extraction and ecological change. I make constructed landscapes using a mixture of found imagery, drawings made from observation and landscapes reconstructed from memory. I combine collaged, torn and crumpled paper, cardboard, scrap wood and tape with watercolour, acrylic, charcoal and pencil. I enjoy experimenting with these materials, using their different textures and qualities to build, fragment and rework landscapes. Recent work questions romantic ideas of wild and untouched landscapes, particularly within the Scottish Highlands, where environments perceived as natural have been profoundly altered through centuries of management. I live on a smallholding on the Black Isle, where we have developed a permaculture-inspired forest garden and run two off-grid eco cabins. My time is divided between tending the gardens, running the accommodation and making work in my home studio. Since relocating from the city to the Highlands in 2015, I have become increasingly attuned to the rhythms and changing conditions of the landscape around me. The seasons, weather and ongoing changes in the land are part of everyday life and naturally feed into my work. My experience of regenerative gardening has also influenced the way I think about landscape. Both gardening and making art involve close observation, recognising patterns and responding to change. Living and working in this way has deepened my awareness of the relationship between human activity and the natural environment. |
Biography
| Biography | Born 1970 UK, lives on Black Isle, Scotland 1993 – 1996 De Montfort University, Leicester, BA Fine Art & Art History 2006 – 2008 Wimbledon College of Art, London, MA Fine Art (Part Time/AHRC funded) 2025 Creative Practice 4 (Part Time), Moray School of Art Solo Exhibitions 2015 Travelogue/Northern European Residencies 2013-14, The Briggait, Glasgow 2011 Strategies, Contingencies & Failures, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich, CH 2007 Work Makes Dust, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich, CH 2004 3 Route Dislocation, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich, CH Selected Group Exhibitions 2026 Terrain, Auto Amor, Sevenoaks 2026 Members Exhibition, An Talla Solais, Ullapool 2026 Strata, Presented by Visual Arts Scotland, Inverness Creative Academy 2025 Awkward Objects, Circus Artspace, Inverness 2025 Mind the Gap, Moray School of Art, Elgin 2018 Trace Ingredients (collaboration with Cat Meighan), IMAG, Inverness, UK 2014 AxisWeb, London Art Fair, London, UK 2012 End of the Future, Transition Gallery, London, UK 2012 Jam Tomorrow, APT Gallery, London, UK 2011 Crash Open Salon, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK 2011 Points of Non-Interest, Mint Hotel, London, UK (in association with Whitechapel Gallery and London Met MA Curating Course) 2009 I can bring this to your city, Island Projects London, UK 2009 Olympic Visions, The Nunnery, London, UK 2008 New Territories, Ada St Gallery, London, UK 2008 Matter of Time, James Taylor Gallery, London, UK 2008 Signs of Life, Offsite Project, London, UK 2008 M is for MA, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK 2008 Approaches to What?, The Nunnery, London, UK 2008 The Best Is Yet To Come, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich, CH 2007 Currents, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK 2006 PreviewBerlin, Backfabrik, Berlin, DE 2006 Points of Non-Interest, Guest artist of WalkWalkWalk, London, UK 2005 Acid Drops and Sugar Candy, Transition Gallery, London, UK 2005 The Wrong Map, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK,(curated by C A Brandon) 2004 E9: An Anatomy of an Area, Transition Gallery, London, UK 2003 Sense & Sensibility, Transition Gallery, London, UK 1999 999, Troesch Building, Bellinzona, CH Residencies and Workshops 2016/17/18/19 ‘Sketchiness’ urban sketching workshop in Inverness as part of Festival of Architecture 2017 Exchange Residency North,Victorian Market, Inverness, Scotland 2016 Exchange Residency North, The Clay Studio, Inverness, Scotland 2014 WASPS The Booth, Shetland 2014 AiR Hafnarborg, The Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland 2013 AiR Ricklundgarden, Saxnas, Sweden 2013 AiR Konstepidemin, Goteborg, Sweden 2013 WASPS The Steeple, Newburgh, Scotland 2013 Artist in Residence at KINOKINO Centre for Art and Film, Sandnes, Norway Publications 2004 E9: An Anatomy of an Area Catalogue ISBN 0-09548954-0-1 |