'Of High Specific Gravity' by Fiona Steel • reviewsphere

Concerned with the memory and myths to be found within the landscape. I adopt a level of interconnectedness in my image making, juxtaposing apparent opposites, or dualities. I construct narratives with a transcendental approach, combining real, imagined, and metaphorical elements to reflect on both my own personal experience of place, and that of which has gone before.

In my most recent project, ‘Of High Specific Gravity’, I explore a land with a troubled past. Historically, twenty aircraft succumbed to the moorlands of this landscape. Human error and heavy mist were said to be contributing factors. However, another theory was that mineral deposits within the land interfered with the primitive navigational equipment. This mineral is Baryte, known for its high specific gravity.

~ Fiona Steel

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Fiona Steel

Artist / Phographer at Fiona Steel Photography

Before specialising in photography, Fiona studied both printmaking and contemporary art. It was during this time she started experimenting with alternative photographic processes, mainly cyanotype and gum bichromate. This eventually led to a BA (Hons) in photography from Edinburgh College of Art. Since graduating in 2017, she has gone on to exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy as part of the New Contemporaries exhibition, and more recently at Street Level Photoworks where she was selected as a member of the New Photographers Guild. The majority of her work is shot on film, and is not overly concerned with technical accuracies, preferring tactile qualities which evoke an emotional response.

Her time is spent between the moorlands to the west of Glasgow, and the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.Both of which continue to feed and inspire her photographic practice.