Roger Hilton’s work like many artists at the time is physical, gestural by nature. The place where line, form and colour, drawing and painting meet, pushing, jostling and settling somewhere on the periphery of landscape and abstraction, poetic in intent.
I chose ‘Palisade’ to interpret, an articulation provoking something sculptural, its identity awkward, animal, physical, inhabiting an unknown landscape.
Link to Roger Hilton's piece in the National Galleries of Scotland Collection. Dominique Cameron's Palisade photograph by Gary Doak Photography.Price: £450
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.
