Fine Art nominee

The work explores subconscious emotional memories, otherworldly fables and folklore. It also features found items that had a place, a function, a use, in one world, which are now abandoned adrift and discarded in another world in which they take on an ethereal distorted temporal beauty, dissolving and breaking down into the aquatic environment. 
 
The process of developing this work has come through observation and years of devoted water time, evolving study and exploration. This work can’t be reproduced. It is completely unique like our own fingerprints. To create these moments while free diving in challenging conditions in the waters around Scotland isn’t easy. The current is playing with them and with me, the entire time – I am capturing something that’s never going to be in the same location, same light, same position, ever again.

Janeanne Gilchrist is a photographic artist and image-maker. She was born and brought up in Edinburgh and graduated from Napier University in 1996 with a BA (Honours) in photography and film. 

I have been diving for over 15 years on my underwater expeditions, I have discovered a whole new, beautiful world, where gravity doesn’t apply and everything is in constant flux. I am challenging and exploring my own limits, working in the aquatic environment, shooting under the water, capturing unseen moments. My work is an ongoing observation of surface, space, and perception. It is a juxtaposition between the organic and the invasion of the man-made. I make images of a world that most people never get to see.  

Shows
17/18 Above Below Beyond Solo exhibition - Fergusson Gallery Perth
2017 Awarded J. D Fergusson Art award
2016 Aesthetica Art Prize 2016–100 Contemporary Artists (longlisted)
2016 Group exhibition Image Collective Gallery Ocean Terminal Edinburgh
2016 Group exhibition, Retina International photography festival Edinburgh
2015 Solo exhibition, Taylor Physiotherapy Edinburgh
2014 Group exhibition Saorsa Art Gallery Edinburgh
2013 Site-specific installation, “Fringe Bar”, Edinburgh Airport
2010 Group exhibition, Association of Photographers, London
Reviews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42010479
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/freedivers-ghostly-art-shows-depths-of-pollution-nhcwrhlwc