May 31st 2024.
Methil Pier.
"Early morning. High Tide. A thin veil of cloud promises to lift to reveal a bright, shiny day. A few Methil men are already on the seawall fishing – cod and mackerel I’m told, no luck as yet. The still air allows sound to travel across the docks – voices, lorries, a small boats engine coughing, the gentle lapping of water against the pier. Warm concrete to sit on and draw the old jetty. I am astonished by the number of plants that have taken up residence in nooks and crannies of split concrete and rotting wood, where dockan, scurvy grass and birds foot trefoil seem out of place, out on a limb. I walk to the end and look out to sea. ‘Catch anything?’ I ask. ‘Naw… nearly caught a crab, this big but it fell off. I’ll call it a day soon.’ ‘Me too’, I say." Dominique CameronPrice: £1500
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.
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