Multicomponent: Drawn to the Land
Multicomponent with contextual info
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1760906
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- n/a
- Month
- September
- Year
- 2015
- URL
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https://portfolios.napier.ac.uk/view/view.php?t=NhYQSsODcCvxKBUferau
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This long-term documentary photographic project presents an intimate engagement with the contemporary Scottish landscape through the eyes of the women farmers who work and shape it.
Drawn to the Land comprises over 100 archival quality photographic works, a book dummy and supporting written and audio materials.
Gerrard has been an exhibiting artist since 2007, her work explores the relationship between people and their landscape. The work places women front and centre for the first time in a comprehensive contemporary study of this kind, challenging the stereotypes of farmers’ wives or labourers by presenting them as independent farmers and landowners themselves.
The photographic representation of male figures in landscape, agriculture and ownership of Scotland has long been dominated by male perspectives (Tom Kidd 1970, Glyn Satterly 1980). Women custodians of the Scottish landscape remain under-represented and virtually undocumented. Drawn To The Land presents ten womens’ contributions to the landscape, demonstrating their hidden stories. The women vary in age, location and ownership status and were photographed and interviewed regularly from 2014 – 2020.
The project employed an ethnographic, slow journalistic and embedded documentary story-telling format as its methodology involving field studies and extended interviews and photography.
This practice-based research has been supported by two museum commissions working with international curators, four museum acquisitions and a monograph publishing agreement evidencing its originality and significance.
The works comprising this output were exhibited at Perth Museum & Art Gallery (2019), Bratislava OFF Festival (2018), The Scottish National Portrait Gallery (2015-2016) Impressions Gallery (2014) and are held in 4 national collections.
A book-dummy has been produced and the work will be published in 2021. The making and context of this research has been published in ArMen magazine (France), Telegraph Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Photoworks and Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine (UK), and CNN online (USA).
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- Non-English
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