Beka
Globe Beka Globe came to Harris when she was just 11 years old. Her father, sculptor Steve Dilworth stills lives and works locally. She studied photography and darkroom techniques from an early age at Napier University in Edinburgh. There she was inspired by Ansel Adams’ landscapes, Paul Strand’s portaits and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seascapes. Having travelled extensively, photographing America and New Zealand she returned to the Hebrides to explore her roots in the landscape she first viewed through the lens. Here she captures an emotive vastness, depth and simplicity. Her silent images are deeply moving, stirring a particular sense of place. In her new collection for 2011 Beka explores The Edge, where the land meets the sea, the sea meets the sky, and the sky meets the land. A dynamic place where elements collide, interact and influence one another. Photographed during the winter these extremes of environment explode with energy and Beka's images hold those timeless and elemental forces of nature. |
 Nickolai
Globe Nickolai was born into clay. Now he has fused himself to Harris, where the influence of his ironage nordic bogman ancestors have fluxed his Wabisabi pre-occupation to create his archaic works. High fired earthenware, stoneware and local minerals is his palette, the terrain of the Harris his muse. His new work takes ceramics to the edge of craft, where sculpture and function merge. His high fired stoneware bowls and vessel forms become more geological and carry with them a deep reflection of the terrain of the Hebrides. Incorporating glass and raw minerals into his work they literally embody the landscape. Wabisabi: An aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience, described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. “If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi. Referring to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society it connotes rustic simplicity, freshness or quietness, and can be applied to both natural and human-made objects. It can also refer to quirks and anomalies arising from the process of construction, which add uniqueness and elegance to the object. |
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