Christopher Morgan 
Pieman - A Breath of Light

Staying grounded in his personal "analogue" background, Christopher Morgan has a       way of using digital technology - through a long, laborious and painstaking process -       to capture the essence of this amazing landscape.                                                            

This is his Artist's Statement:-            

"What attracts me to this river, fundamentally, is that the Pieman is still a wild river and has escaped, by and large, attempts by political and corporate processes to tame and pollute its brackish, tidal waters.

 Photographically, my artistic struggle involves matching the digital processes that I use with an analogue/filmic feel. In my formative years, I worked with photographic film and with darkroom technology. A consciousness regarding analogue photography stays with me - and I have been comforted by comments made by curators and good friends regarding my more recent digital work - that it contains the remnants of an analogue feel. This combination of technologies gives me the possibility of a greater sharpness and clarity via the digital medium, while at the same time managing to hold onto a more painterly and wavelength-based tonal feel. This suits the capturing of the underlying curiosity I have about this river.

In my work and by these means, I try to fathom the mystery and spiritual presence of this wonderful river. Photographically, I use the uncanny light that bounces off brackish darkness. Low light in the mornings and in the evenings. Those moments before stronger, sometimes diffuse light arrives to illuminate the Tarkine. Later, the darkness that invades my workplace. And, occasionally, that dark night turns the landscape into an almost colourless field.

So I work within a painterly bent. Knowing that two lit moments are never the same. I recoil into a digital matrix of curiosity, layered by pixels to create a tempered space and a contested ground within mechanically applied ink on metal."

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