Clive Brandon
- Work
- Biography
I am a visual artist based on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands, working across painting, collage, photography, books, and interventions. My practice explores the landscapes, architecture, and spaces I inhabit, drawing on my deep connection to the environment. Recent work focuses on the ‘constructed landscape’—how human intervention reshapes natural spaces.
Using an experimental, often improvised process, I work with found materials like cardboard, scrap wood, and paper, alongside watercolour, charcoal, and newsprint. My pieces evoke both real and imagined landscapes, influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi, embracing imperfection and impermanence, as well as ‘Casualist’ art, celebrating the beauty of the unfinished.
Light and space are integral to my work. It extends beyond the canvas, offering a sense of movement—like navigating a landscape, reading a map, or pausing during a walk. Since relocating to the Highlands in 2015, my practice has become attuned to the rhythms of the land, reflecting seasonal shifts and the broader ecological crisis.
As a regenerative gardener, I explore connections between permaculture, site-specificity, and constructed landscapes. My work mirrors natural cycles, considering sustainability and closed-loop systems.
I draw inspiration from Land Art, Minimalism, and artists such as Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul Nash, Joan Eardley, and contemporary figures like David Lemm and Emily Speed.
Through my work, I invite viewers to reconsider landscapes—not just as physical spaces, but as constructs shaped by human hands.
Using an experimental, often improvised process, I work with found materials like cardboard, scrap wood, and paper, alongside watercolour, charcoal, and newsprint. My pieces evoke both real and imagined landscapes, influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi, embracing imperfection and impermanence, as well as ‘Casualist’ art, celebrating the beauty of the unfinished.
Light and space are integral to my work. It extends beyond the canvas, offering a sense of movement—like navigating a landscape, reading a map, or pausing during a walk. Since relocating to the Highlands in 2015, my practice has become attuned to the rhythms of the land, reflecting seasonal shifts and the broader ecological crisis.
As a regenerative gardener, I explore connections between permaculture, site-specificity, and constructed landscapes. My work mirrors natural cycles, considering sustainability and closed-loop systems.
I draw inspiration from Land Art, Minimalism, and artists such as Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul Nash, Joan Eardley, and contemporary figures like David Lemm and Emily Speed.
Through my work, I invite viewers to reconsider landscapes—not just as physical spaces, but as constructs shaped by human hands.
Born 1970 UK, lives on the Black Isle, Scotland
1993 – 1996 De Montfort University, Leicester, BA Fine Art & Art History
2006 – 2008 Wimbledon College of Art, London, MA Fine Art (Part Time/AHRC funded)
2025 Creative Practice 4 (Part time), Moray School of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Travelogue/Northern European Residencies 2013-14, The Briggait, Glasgow
2011 Strategies, Contingencies & Failures, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich
2007 Work Makes Dust, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich
2004 3 Route Dislocation, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich
Group Exhibitions
2025 Mind The Gap, Moray School of Art, Elgin, UK
2018 Trace Ingredients (collaboration with Cat Meighan), IMAG, Inverness, UK
2017 Lonely Art Club, IMAG, Inverness
2014 AxisWeb, London Art Fair, London
2012 End of the Future, Transition Gallery, London
2012 Jam Tomorrow, APT Gallery, London
2011
Crash Open Salon, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
Points of Non-Interest, Mint Hotel, London, (in association with Whitechapel Gallery and London Met MA Curating Course)
2009
I can bring this to your city, Island Projects London
Olympic Visions,The Nunnery, London
2008
New Territories, Ada St Gallery, London
Matter of Time, James Taylor Gallery, London
Signs of Life, Offsite Project, London
M is for MA, Wimbledon College of Arts, London
Approaches to What?, The Nunnery, London
2007
Currents, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
2006
PreviewBerlin, Backfabrik, Berlin
Points of Non-Interest, WalkWalkWalk, London
2005
Acid Drops and Sugar Candy, Transition Gallery, London
The Wrong Map, Three Colts Gallery, London (curated by C A Brandon)
2004 E9: An Anatomy of an Area, Transition Gallery, London
1999 999, Troesch Building, Bellinzona
Residencies and Workshops
2016- 19 ‘Sketchiness’ urban sketching, Inverness
2016- 17 Exchange Residency North, Inverness
2014
WASPS The Booth, Shetland
AiR Hafnarborg, Iceland
2013
AiR Ricklundgarden, Sweden
AiR Konstepidemin, Sweden
1993 – 1996 De Montfort University, Leicester, BA Fine Art & Art History
2006 – 2008 Wimbledon College of Art, London, MA Fine Art (Part Time/AHRC funded)
2025 Creative Practice 4 (Part time), Moray School of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Travelogue/Northern European Residencies 2013-14, The Briggait, Glasgow
2011 Strategies, Contingencies & Failures, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich
2007 Work Makes Dust, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich
2004 3 Route Dislocation, Galerie Hubert Baechler, Zurich
Group Exhibitions
2025 Mind The Gap, Moray School of Art, Elgin, UK
2018 Trace Ingredients (collaboration with Cat Meighan), IMAG, Inverness, UK
2017 Lonely Art Club, IMAG, Inverness
2014 AxisWeb, London Art Fair, London
2012 End of the Future, Transition Gallery, London
2012 Jam Tomorrow, APT Gallery, London
2011
Crash Open Salon, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
Points of Non-Interest, Mint Hotel, London, (in association with Whitechapel Gallery and London Met MA Curating Course)
2009
I can bring this to your city, Island Projects London
Olympic Visions,The Nunnery, London
2008
New Territories, Ada St Gallery, London
Matter of Time, James Taylor Gallery, London
Signs of Life, Offsite Project, London
M is for MA, Wimbledon College of Arts, London
Approaches to What?, The Nunnery, London
2007
Currents, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
2006
PreviewBerlin, Backfabrik, Berlin
Points of Non-Interest, WalkWalkWalk, London
2005
Acid Drops and Sugar Candy, Transition Gallery, London
The Wrong Map, Three Colts Gallery, London (curated by C A Brandon)
2004 E9: An Anatomy of an Area, Transition Gallery, London
1999 999, Troesch Building, Bellinzona
Residencies and Workshops
2016- 19 ‘Sketchiness’ urban sketching, Inverness
2016- 17 Exchange Residency North, Inverness
2014
WASPS The Booth, Shetland
AiR Hafnarborg, Iceland
2013
AiR Ricklundgarden, Sweden
AiR Konstepidemin, Sweden
- Clive Brandon
- Catterline, 2013
- Collage
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- Broken Moderne, 2012
- Acrylic
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- Trace Ingredients, 2018
- Installation
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- Lay of the Land, 2025
- Mixed Media
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- Goteborgsguiden, 2013
- Collage
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- Icelandic Landscape (Relief), 2014
- Collage
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- RaRaPanorama, 2013
- Collage
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- Connecting Points, 2019
- Collage
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