Tabula Rasa II, Street Level Photoworks, Trongate 103, Glasgow until February 5, 2017
www.streetlevelphotoworks.org
A LITHUANIAN photographer based in Glasgow, whose work explores nostalgia, national identity and the politics of migration, is part of an exhibition exploring current trends in contemporary Scottish photography. Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte is one of five photographers whose work is showcased in Tabula Rasa II at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow.
Kiliulyte's Amber Room series explores the experience of migrant life by presenting work made between two countries, Lithuania and Scotland. She moved to Scotland in 2008 to study at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) for a BA in Visual Communication (Photography), and has recently completed an MLitt in Fine Art Practice at the GSA. Her work has been exhibited in Scotland, London and Croatia and she has won several awards for her photography.
The exhibition brings together five Glasgow-based artists originating from three countries, Scotland, Lithuania and Germany, each with a distinct entry point into the medium.
Frank McElhinney, who graduated from the GSA two years ago as a mature student, also looks at migration. In his project, Adrift, he took aerial photographs of abandoned villages in the Highlands and Islands using a camera attached to a kite. Alan Knox has created his series, Man in the Moon, by making enlarged negatives of historic family photographs and re-photographing them, backlit by the moon, at different stages of the lunar cycle.
Julia Bauer, originally from Germany, looks for “the beauty of the most boring of places” in her work by photographing pinboards and corridors in institutional buildings. Stephen Healy makes hand-printed images of aspects of Scottish landscape, influenced by the techniques of abstract expressionist painting.
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