Drumcarrow - June 2022
"We stand on an upturned bowl. The world twinkles, grasses shimmy in the scattered sun, swirling, spinning, tilting, folding around us.
What do you hear?
The sound bowl sings and skylarks take over their part in this play.
I lose sight of you. Behind me, breath on my neck. I start, turn, but it is only the wind turbine’s sleepy wheeze.
We pinpoint the four corners of the earth. We walk and pick and stumble and talk this thing into a shape of sorts,
Something soft, gummy, wee. Its words not yet spoken. We shall breathe them into being I think.
Haar rolls in from the North Sea, disappearing the landscape.
A wolf
Is here, somewhere among the glittery rocks and fire."
Dominique CameronPrice: £725
Dominique Cameron RSW - Artist's Statement
As an artist my practice is rooted in landscape. I walk, draw, paint, write and film my encounters through the urban environment and the rural.
I grew up in the West country, a place of beauty, boredom and economic division. The most exciting thing for us as teenagers was the local disco on a Friday night and waiting for the Top 40 on a Sunday tea-time, trying to tape it on our mono tape recorders. This lack of adventure led to walking, away from home. There were particular routes I would take often, places I got to know in detail. It was a kind of ‘mapping’, charting the unknown parts of my surrounding landscape. To this day it is something I do on arrival in a new place, except now I make things that articulate what I find as artefact, as document as re-imagined memory of place. The teenage girl is still there, I can’t quite seem to shake her off, but its comforting to know I am still as curious and awkward and persistent.
Education
1989-92 – Napier University, Edinburgh – B.A. Photography (Distinction).
2013-14 – Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee – MFA Art, Society and Publics.
