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Philip Braham - Photographer

Closer to Home – Photography

6 January 2021 - 30 January 2021

We were delighted to open 2021 with a major exhibition of new work by artist Philip Braham. In this new collection of paintings and photographs he 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 presents his sixth solo exhibition with The Gallery. We are delighted to showcase this haunting body of work from an artist deserving of particular contemplation.

Please click here to purchase the accompanying catalogue.

Closer to Home travelled to Perth Museum & Art Gallery and was exhibited there from 30th April to 5th June 2021.

Philip Braham - Photographer

Born: 1959
Place of Birth: Glasgow

A graduate from 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 22 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 Raab Gallery Berlin, The Scottish Gallery and at the Royal Scottish Academy for the Edinburgh International Festival contribution in 2010. A longstanding interest in continental aesthetics informs his pedagogical role as Course Director for Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices at the University of Dundee.

Braham works in both painting and photography, which 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 and silver-based photography.

To view his 2021 exhibition Closer to Home please click here.

To view paintings by Philip Braham please click here.

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