Max Howarth
My work is concerned with the landscape and how it is negotiated, exploited, utilised, forgotten and reused.
Using the edgelands of Glasgow as a focus point, I concentrate my practice on the the minutiae within the overlooked and rarely observed transitional space between the urban and the rural. Shifting the periphery central.
Never observing the landscape as a whole, but rather building an understanding through its details, making physical interventions in these environments as a means to comically make the unseen ‘seen’.
My work intends to allow new ways for this ‘out of view’ space to be approached and interpreted, subverting the usual rhetoric of a cities edgelands as an inaccessible, hostile ‘none-space’, but as space for play and creation, of contemplation, absurdity and beauty.
spotted rock (spray paint intervention) 2021 – Selenium toned, hand printed silver gelatin (30x30cm) Edition of 1 with 1 AP.
Cracks 1 of 3 (Triptych) 2021 – Hand printed silver gelatin light recording (5×7″) Unique Edition of 1
Edgeland Fragment #1 2021 – Hand printed silver gelatin photogram (6×4″) Edition of 1
Edgeland Fragment #2 2021 – Selenium toned hand printed silver gelatin (9.5×12″) Edition of 2 + 1 AP
Barrier #1 2021 – Hand printed silver gelatin (9.5×12) Edition of 2+1 AP
Barrier #2 2021 – Archival inkjet print (8×10) Edition of 2+1 AP
Wrapped Rock (Spray paint intervention) 2021 – Handprinted silver gelatin (9.5×12) Edition of 1+1 AP
Crater (spray paint intervention) 2021 – Handprinted silver gelatin (8×10) Edition of 2+1 AP
Exterior circle 2021 – Archival inkjet print (35x35cm) Edition of 2+1AP
Interior Circle 2021 – Cyanotype (28x28cm) Edition of 1
Untitled 2021 – Archival inkjet print (35x35cm) Edition of 2+1AP
Wrapped Tree 2021 – Archival inkjet print (35×35) Edition of 2+1AP
Gnarled Pile 2021 – Hand printed silver gelatin (5×4) Edition of 5
Yellow Mountain (Spray paint intervention) 2020 – Archival inkjet print (50x50cm) Edition of 2 +1AP
Beef-Marks 2021 – Archival Inkjet Print (50x50cm) Edition of 2+1AP
*All works are available for sale, price on request