9 November 2015

Island Drift is an immersive photographic installation, created by renowned public art charity NVA, in partnership with Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park for the Year of Natural Scotland 2013. The exhibition will open to the public on 14 November at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow.

Over an eight month period National Park Rangers helped designer James Johnson, photographer Alan McAteer and NVA’s creative director Angus Farquhar, to create the art work around Loch Lomond. By placing moving and static lights on land and water, and using multiple camera positions, they captured a powerful series of digital images that illuminate the Highland boundary fault line.

Gordon Watson, Chief Executive of Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park said:

“It was an unusual and fascinating experience for our Rangers to help the artists light up the landscape of the Park to create these stunning images. The exhibition provides a unique perspective on the striking geology of Loch Lomond and we are thrilled that it will be on show at the Street Level. I would encourage people from the National Park area and across Scotland to head to Glasgow for this unique exhibition.”

The Street Level Photoworks exhibition of Island Drift, displays the images in a series of stunning lightbox images that give multiple perspectives on the topography of the region. By lighting the landscape and water, and using the subtle changes of natural light, photographer McAteer captures a powerful compositional structure and texture to the images.

Earlier in the year, Street Level Photoworks were commissioned by NVA to deliver the Island Drift engagement programme, involving primary schools from the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs area in some of the creative photography techniques. Pupils took part in sessions that explored manual camera techniques, panoramas and painting with light with an exhibition of the pupils’ works taking place at Cashel Native Forest Centre in May. The pupils created stunning photography of their local area resulting in a diverse collection of images, from considered studies of nature, to sweeping, swirling and imagined landscapes.

NVA is also the company behind the regeneration of St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross. It aims to be the world’s first intentional modernist ruin, creating a new resource for arts, and heritage, with an inaugural event on site planned for Spring 2016.

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Notes to Editors

Photo Credit: Alan McAteer

EVENT INFORMATION:

Exhibition dates: 14 November 2015 – 24 January 2016

Reception evening: 19 November

Street Level Photoworks

Trongate 103

Glasgow, G1 5HD

For further information, to arrange interviews with the artists or request images from NVA please contact Claire McNaught claireM@nva.org.uk 0141 332 9911

For further information or to arrange interviews from loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park contact Anna Marriott (Mon, Tue) 01389 722 046 anna.marriott@lochlomond-trossachs.org  or Nancy McLardie, PR & Media Manager (Wed-Fri) 01389 722016/mobile 07834 334108; email: PR&media@lochlomond-trossachs.org

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park

Stretching for 720 square miles and within an hour's drive of Scotland's two biggest cities, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park provides a stunning combination of lochs, mountains, forests and glens.

·         Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park was formed in 2002 and outlines four key aims in its National Partnership Plan 2012 - 2017:

·         To conserve and enhance the natural and cultural heritage of the area;

·         To promote sustainable use of the area's natural resources;

·         To promote understanding and enjoyment - including enjoyment in the form of recreation - of the special qualities of the area;

·         To promote sustainable economic and social development of the area's communities

www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/

NVA:

NVA’s mission is to make powerful public art that reaffirms people’s connection to the built and natural heritage.

The company has produced many unusual and dynamic interventions in extraordinary landscapes over the last 20 years. Light, sound and collective movement have been incorporated into the mountains of Skye, city lighting festivals and international cultural events including the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and the Tour de France – Grand Départ in Yorkshire in 2014.

NVA is an acronym of ‘nacionale vita activa’, expressing the Ancient Greek ideal of a lively democracy, where actions and words shared among equals bring new thinking into the world.

www.nva.org.uk

Street Level Photoworks:

Street Level Photoworks is a leading photography arts organisation that provides artists and the public with a range of opportunities to make and engage with photography. It is a gallery and an open access photographic production facility, committed to quality and equality across activity. Street Level provides a high quality artistic programme in the city of Glasgow that is challenging and accessible, local and international, diverse and highly individual. Education has always been one of the philosophical cornerstones of Street Level and work in this area involves a range of artist collaborations in the community, with schools and with agencies working across areas of inclusion, social justice and equalities.

www.streetlevelphotoworks.org

 

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