We are thrilled to announce that Philip Braham’s major exhibition Closer to Home will be exhibited at Perth Museum & Art Gallery from 30th April to 5th June 2021. Please click here to be directed to the Perth Museum & Art Gallery website, or contact the Gallery for more information.

Closer to Home opened our 2021 exhibition programme. In this new collection of paintings and photographs Braham explores the landscape around his new home and studio in the marches between Highland and Lowland: ancient disputed lands, rich in human history: agricultural, religious and violent. The thin mantle of the earth bears witness to the human struggle, the beautiful indifference of the passing seasons dictating the rhythms of farming, social life, warfare and death.

Philip Braham has exhibited with The Scottish Gallery since 1984 and Closer to Home presented his sixth solo exhibition with The Gallery. We are delighted to support his exhibition with Perth Museum & Art Gallery, and that the exhibition will be available to view by the public for the first time.

Philip Braham

Born: 1959

Place of Birth: Glasgow

A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Philip Braham first came to prominence in the 1980s with the rise of figurative painting in Scotland, which culminated in The Vigorous Imagination, an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1987. His career includes 27 solo exhibitions to date; in addition to numerous group shows both nationally and internationally. Among the awards received are the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy Guthrie Award for painting and the Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award for lens-based work. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, The Scottish Gallery and at the Royal Scottish Academy. A longstanding interest in continental aesthetics informs his pedagogical role as Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice at the University of Dundee. He was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 2021.

Braham’s paintings are informed by the Northern European engagement with landscape as a metaphor for the human condition. Recent projects reflect on the temporal nature of our existence through personal recollection and collective history, set within the slowly evolving landscape that bears us forward. Fidelity to experience is fundamental to his practice, and this brings a poetic grace to his technical mastery of oil painting.

Closer to Home at Perth Museum & Art Gallery

Philip Braham

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