Hamiltons is delighted to announce the exhibition Albert Watson: SKYE. In honour of his first exhibition with the gallery in over a decade, the artist has chosen a selection of breath-taking landscapes from his ‘first fine art project’ shot in the photographer’s native Scotland.
His most personal project to date began in 2013 when he toured the island of Skye, working 12 hours a day for 5 weeks, inspiring him to create a series of other-worldly landscape photographs. Known to him since childhood, the island’s dramatic landscapes produced an inescapable magical quality that compelled him to produce a body of extraordinary photographs that he hoped would do more than simply document the landscape. Watson recalls, ‘I was terrified of coming to Skye and producing picture postcards. I wanted to create landscapes that were quite mysterious, I deliberately went in October and November because I was hoping for bad weather – and of course I got it. I find blue sky with white fluffy clouds deadly when it comes to creating a powerful landscape and I was looking for wind and rain and mist.'
Albert Watson, Fairy Glen through Windshield, Isle of Skye, Scotland, Tile Series, 2013; Albert Watson, Stone Wall, Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2013 © Albert Watson
