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Eva Barton
Glasgow School of Art (BA Hons Fine Art Photography / 2010)
  • Horizon #4
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 30 x 0 cm
    £160.00
  • Horizon #2
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 32 x 0 cm
    £160.00
  • Ghost Lake #3
    Size (H x W x D): 0 x 42 x 30 cm
    £160.00
  • Forest #2
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 30 x 0 cm
    £160.00
  • Ghost Lake #2
    Size (H x W x D): 0 x 42 x 30 cm
    £160.00
  • Horizon #5
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 30 x 0 cm
    £160.00
  • Horizon #3
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 30 x 0 cm
    £160.00
  • Horizon #1
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 30 x 0 cm
    £160.00
  • Forest #1
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 30 x 0 cm
    £160.00
  • Ghost Lake #1
    Size (H x W x D): 0 x 42 x 30 cm
    £160.00
  • Forest #3
    Size (H x W x D): 42 x 30 x 0 cm
    £160.00

Profile

Photography is my passion and I feel most at ease when I work with landscape photography. I am interested in the abstraction of the landscape, how to reconstruct, reshape it though the camera eye. With my photographs I aim to create a new reality, something that was not there before.

My photographs are not taken in particularly exotic or picturesque places. I believe what matters is the way the photographer sees things and the subjective way of recording it. There is always a touch of self expression in the photographs, my feeling towards the place and its atmosphere is always present in the photograph at the end.

The use of analog cameras is essential to my work. Photography is all about light, and I need to feel the physical imprint of light in the film. There is a mystery there, a short of magic that needs its ritual, the camera, the film, the dark room. To my mind, digital photography is something altogether different.

Exhibitions

2011 ‘Buffer Zone ‘ The Armory Gallery, Sydney

2010 ‘Glasgow School of Art’ Degree Show

2009 ‘Fault Lines’ WASPS Studios, Glasgow

2009 ‘One Worl’ The Cell, Glasgow

2008 ‘On Me Turn’ Newberry Gallery, Glasgow

2008 ‘Group exhibition’ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2006 ‘Group Show’ Tűzraktár, Budapest

Interview

What is your favourite film of all time?

It depends and it changes all the time.

What music are you currently listening to and why?

My flatmate who is singing in the shower.

Which living artists do you most admire and why?

Mari Mahr, because of her sensitivity for image making and her personality.

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, because of his influence on photography in the 20th century.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?

An unknown indigenous artist from the Outback, Australia.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?

“How did you do it?” Well, if I tell you I’d break the magic. But it’s not digital manipulation that I can tell.

What / who inspired you to be an artist?

I would not say I became the way I am because of the influence of somebody. It just happened.

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what if any the significance of this location is?

It can be anywhere, I just have to use my imagination and creativity.

What do you like most about being an artist?

The society forgives you for being a weirdo.

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?

When a little child in my degree show wanted to take away one of my photograph from the wall.

What are your plans for the coming year?

Continue making photographs.