February 18th 2024.
Rannoch – This impossible place...
"Water juggles over rock, through tress, emptying into the Moor to join the pooling, trickling, lapping, bubbling bog. My trainers are sucked from my feet, already sodden, shrivelled. The train pulls into the station, a leap across a burn, pink pebbles, embroidery of silver lichen. Black velvet pools of peat smell of time, its scent drifts across this impossible place. Flinty sharpening winds usher clouds, sift icing rain. The mountains disappear. All that remains is the moss beneath my feet, sinking slowly. Above the sky considers its options, decides to lie low for now at least. Small birds sing across the moor. I am gone."
Dominique CameronDominique 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.
