The Back Road
- Artist:
- Type: Photograph
- Medium: Archival digital print
- Production Date: 2013
- Description: One of five prints gifted by the artist from his 2013 ALVA series of photographs.
A series of photographs made each winter 2011-13 when the artist returned to his family home.
He says: 'home is where the heart is/the camera never lies'. I think about Alva quite differently now than I did a few years ago when I finished making these photographs. I remember thinking a lot about how photography has been usurped by photography and about how the idea of home as a place and a genesis is now, at best, a degraded fiction.
The photographs are at once a portrait of a specific Scottish town, but also a portrait of a 'home town'. This is the place we grew up, the place we wanted to escape, and the place we sometimes return to - here seen by the photographer precisely, straight and free from sentimentality, aware that things are always at once familiar and unfamiliar, important and everyday. - Dimensions: Framed: 44cm (H) x 51.5 cm (W)
Unframed: 29cm (H) x 37cm (W) - Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store - Bay 1 - Small works shelf
- Related Material: AC/AF/G/7
- Accession Number: 2017.26
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
