"Vessels of the Fishers"
A photographic series for the exhibition "Luminous"
Heliconian Hall, May 2017
A photographic series for the exhibition "Luminous"
Heliconian Hall, May 2017
Fishing boats of necessity have a robust muscularity suited to the hard and often dangerous work they do to bring us the oceans’ bounty. But they also express the culture and artistic sensibility of the fishers. Throughout history, fishers have endowed their boats with anthropomorphic qualities, and an often spiritual essence. They often love intense, saturated colour on their vessels. It is this charismatic presence of the physical objects themselves that makes fishing boats so wonderful to photograph, and I am drawn irresistibly to harbours and dry docks where ever I find them on my travels. This series features boats from Gozo Island, Malta; Chiloë Island, Chile; Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; Lanzarote in the Canary Islands; Branch Harbour on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland; and Killarney on Georgian Bay, Ontario.
The digital and film archive that forms the basis of my photo art includes images from five continents and many islands, across an array of subject matter. I have always been attracted to the margins of place, time and mind. I look for the beauty and meaning to be found in the world’s liminal places, at the interface of elements - water, sky, rock, plant, artefact. The vessels of fishers, at rest in port awaiting their next voyage, or pulled out onto land to be mended, are the very embodiment of that mystery.
these pictures are available as fine art archival prints, framed or unframed.
The digital and film archive that forms the basis of my photo art includes images from five continents and many islands, across an array of subject matter. I have always been attracted to the margins of place, time and mind. I look for the beauty and meaning to be found in the world’s liminal places, at the interface of elements - water, sky, rock, plant, artefact. The vessels of fishers, at rest in port awaiting their next voyage, or pulled out onto land to be mended, are the very embodiment of that mystery.
these pictures are available as fine art archival prints, framed or unframed.
"Father's Legacy," Branch Outport, Newfoundland, 2016
"La Santa on Lanzarote," Canary Islands, 2016
"A Generation of Fish and Chips," Killarney, Ontario 2015
"End of the Day in Martha's Vineyard," Massachusetts 2010
"Waiting for the Tide," Chiloé Island, Chile, 2012
"The Basque Fleet at Plentzia," Spain 2008
"Fishers Since the Phoenicians," Zhagra, Malta, 2011
"The Eyes of Osiris," Mgarr Harbour, Malta, 2011