Strange Attractor

Strange Attractor

Craig Thomson
Thu 04 Jun 2015   -  Wed 15 Jul 2015
_ Venue: Summerhall

Craig Thomson’s work often uses photography along with found and constructed elements, to explore the abstract and poetic potentialities latent in the everyday.

New work for Summerhall’s public areas take inspiration from the rural landscape of his home county of Fife, exploring the importance of the ill-defined, liminal spaces that cluster around our towns and villages; the thin borderlands where anonymous traces of pasts, both distant and not-so-distant, intermingle indiscriminately in the undergrowth.

In documenting and extrapolating from the fragmented and uncertain narratives encountered in these marginal sites, he strives to articulate a kind of forensic poetry of place to help reveal a sense of value beyond the often strictly utilitarian or aesthetic standards that define so much of our everyday experience.

 

Craig Thomson is an artist, writer, musician and carpenter. He graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2012.

 

Part of the ‘Outside-In’ visual arts programme