This series draws on symbolism and metaphor from the Outer Hebrides and Iceland, exploring faith and existence in the face of a human crisis..

A sense of belonging underpins my photographic work, which varies from the wildly abstract to more literal representations of the natural world. For me, the art of photography is process-based, using the camera as a tool to express my engagement with any given location or subject. Deep immersion is necessary, and I often spend many hours and days on just a few meters of stream or coast, delving into possibilities, experimenting, observing the ever-shifting interplay of light with matter. Pondering our rapidly changing, disharmonious presence as a race, our separation from our origins, finds expression in my work, asking questions and seeking responses.

Spending many camera-free hours roaming on the hillsides of the southern uplands in Scotland or the wooded slopes around our smallholding in the Alpes-Maritime helps build my mental scrapbook and incubate ideas.  

I'm currently exploring alternative processes and mixed media work, as well as installations.  A key factor is trying to source and use either waste or recycled materials and environmentally acceptable paints, inks etc.

Morag Paterson 

Curriculum Vitae

February 2020

Key Exhibitions/Projects/Installations

2020    Jurors Honorable Mention "Earth in Focus" Photoville (2 series)

2020      Arts Territory Exchange remote Residency

2020 Niche Installation, Dumfries

2019  Images provided for Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary

2019 “Energise” Residency and Exhibition, Scotland

2018 Ode to Pluto “Surge” group show, Hawick

2018    Group Show Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright

2018      Ode to Pluto, digital installation, Head on Photo Festival, Sydney

2017      Ode to Pluto “Surge” group show, Patriothall, Edinburgh

2016 “In Flight” installation, Dumfries town centre (Stove commission)

2016 Oxygen (Fragmented Cities and Identities) Bogota, Columbia

2016 Group show “Fragmented Identities” Venice Biennale

2016 Zero Footprint work on display at M.Contemporary  gallery in Sydney

2016    Spring Fling Rural Mural Collaborative project to deliver two murals   

http://www.spring-fling.co.uk/sfrm/ https://vimeo.com/165419090

2016    Selected for Associate Exhibitor at Head On Photo Festival, Sydney Australia

https://www.headon.com.au/exhibitions/polphaill 

2015   Speakers at the Scottish Nature Photography Festival, Battleby, Perth.

2015   Workshops at the Environmental Art Festival, Dumfries and Galloway

2015    Exhibtion at Thomas Tosh, Thornhill, Dumfires and Galloway 

2015    “Water” Joint exhibition at Seamus Ennis Centre near Dublin

2015    Spring Fling Exhibition

2014    Particpatation in Honeycomb Transmedia project at Ayr College

2014    Fine art book “Zero Footprint” published

http://www.leemingpaterson.com/section522368_410608.html

2014    Particpation begins in Flourish scheme by Cultural Enterprise Office

2014    Speakers at Wigtown Book Festival (also part of EAFS curtain raiser)

2014    Zero Footprint Book Launch and Exhibition, Joe Cornish Gallery

2014   The Daylight Project, Velux

http://www.thedaylightproject.co.uk/content/daylight-unfiltered 

2013    Talk at Mill on the Fleet “Middle Distance” as part of the EAFS

2012    Zero Footprint Exhibition, Scottish Parliament

2012    Building Opportunities in the Biosphere trip to Slovakia

2011     Exhibition at Congregational Gallery, Rothbury

2009     RSA Edinburgh Spring Open Exhibition  (group show)

2009 Doon Valley Museum, Dalmellington, Ayrshire

2006 Guest speaker at the Scottish Nature Photography Forum

2008 Exhibition at Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries 

2008 Exhibition of existing work at Robyn Rowles Gallery, Edinburgh

2008 Exhibition at Joe Cornish Gallery, North Allerton, Yorkshire

2008 Spring Fling, Dumfries and Galloway

2008 Exhibition at Mill on the Fleet Gallery, Gatehouse of Fleet.

2008 Impressions Exhibition at Robyn Rowles Gallery, Edinburgh 

2008 Impressions Exhibition  at Tolbooth Gallery, Kirkcudbright

2008 Impressions Exhibition at Catstrand Gallery, New Galloway

2007 Exhibition at Scottish Natural Heritage Headquarters, Inverness

2007      Spring Fling, Dumfries and Gallery

2007      Exhibition at Tolbooth Gallery, Kirkudbright

2007 Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright

2007 Guest speaker at the Dumfries Camera Club

2006 Exhibition at The Auld Kirk, Dalry

2006 Exhibition at the KPF Gallery, Kirkcudbright

2006      Exhibition at Scottish Natural Heritage Conference   

              Centre, Battleby, Perth