Richard Ashrowan

A ritual evocation set on Dartmoor, through stone and water, the senses unfolding, drawing inward, and creating. The inner life embodied and manife...

23 de abr. de 2024

A silent exploration of light and gesture, finding the light, losing it, moments of exploration, hesitation and connection.

06 de set. de 2021

A series of five ‘movements’. Each movement lasts between one and three minutes on a continuous loop. Individual movements can be shown on single o...

01 de out. de 2007

An index of the thoughts of a single day, at home in Scotland, in the cold and dark of February.

05 de abr. de 2018

A study in the visceral: labour, the weight of the body, how we might traverse space, and perhaps life itself, together and apart, participating, d...

19 de set. de 2019

Robert Fludd was a distinguished English alchemical philosopher, light metaphysician and Kabbalist. In the 1620s he published a tract on wheat, the...

10 de set. de 2016

"The troubles created a generation of escapologists. My generation became experts in the art ofdisappearances and denials followed by ignominious r...

29 de ago. de 2019

Fire as a metaphor, and a worn out linguistic failure, the dead metaphor. Aristotle said, in the Poetics, “Metaphor consists in giving the thing a ...

14 de mai. de 2019

A blunt Scottish perspective on Brexit, and a lament for alternate possibilities in governance. Featuring the leading politicians behind the UK’s d...

17 de set. de 2016

An installation work, with voiceover from the Aurelia Occulta (Theatrum Chemicum, 1659), a text dealing with aspects of Mercury, or mercurius, one ...

25 de ago. de 2015

Speculum is a moving image sigil, an attempt at a rehabilitation of the present through the prism of the past. The work explores ancient theories o...

08 de ago. de 2014

Produced in 2010 in collaboration with performance artists Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Johnston. It explores the transformative qualities of the ...

26 de jul. de 2010

Mutus Floris (mute or silent flowers) is composed of over 5000 individual photographs of wild flowers taken over three seasons, at Phenzhopehaugh i...

30 de mai. de 2011

Filmed in Iceland, this work explores the idea of the fixed and the volatile as a diagrammatic space. Repetitive processes of ‘fixing’ the volatile...

16 de set. de 2011

A critique on the presence of cultural tourism in the high Arctic, an experience diminished by the hunger of the camera for fixed images.

20 de mai. de 2013

A conversation of sorts with an ancient archetype, the vegetative man. The Green Man has been a symbol, a grotesque, a counterpoint, a warning, a c...

20 de fev. de 2008

Made in the summer of 2008, out of an exploration of the Anglo/Scots borderline, one of the oldest borders in the world, an enquiry into the meanin...

24 de ago. de 2008

Filmed in Fingal’s Cave, a dramatic sea cave almost an hour’s journey by sea from the Island of Mull, over the course of seven separate visits. The...

25 de fev. de 2008

Taking a more structural approach to the filmed image, this work explores a preoccupation with reflections, with Deleuze and the 'crystal image'. G...

17 de set. de 2010