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Revisiting An Caisteal

Revisiting An Caisteal is a series of colour photographs that document the view made after climbing the mountain "An Caisteal" on five separate occasions. In each image, the camera points in a SSE direction (the direction of view which appears once at the top of the mountain). Despite the identical nature of the viewpoint, the images are dramatically different due to the variations in climate and weather. My work explores the relationship of the physical through direct, lived experience of place, with an emphasis upon walking in particular. I am interested in this questioning of the experiential and its relationship with landscape, and in particular, “wilderness”, in the context of contemporary culture. In my research I identify with the critical context of new nature writing: writer Kathleen Jamie for instance, working with similar ideas albeit in a different field. Photographically, this work could initially be viewed in the context of Mark Klett’s re-photographic survey images, although in a less scientific, objectified approach. Alexader Maris, Ilana Halperin, and Alec Finlay are contemporaries in this area. These images were shown in their entirety in Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts (GI) 2012, in a two person show (along with Judy Spark, Robert Gordon University) in "Back to the things themselves" and have subsequently been reproduced in the monograph “Lesley Punton – mountains without end”, ISBN 978-0-9549915-6-2, published by ROOMBOOKS, London, Sept 2013. This and related work was also shown at "Learning to Draw/Drawing to Learn", The Fleming Collection, Mayfair, London, 3.9.13 - 9.10.13