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Shifting Landscapes

selected works

Visual Art and Photography by Alistair Keddie — Abstract Painting, Digital Art, ICM, Landscape, and Urban Street Works from Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

Paper trails

Analogue drawing on brown card with dense pastel pink, green, peach, turquoise and orange forms suggesting a colourful jungle landscape or island map, with curled shapes, paths and layered abstract fragments.
Savant
Neon-toned analogue drawing in pinks, reds and magentas, with grey, blue, gold and pale peach block-like forms tumbling through a dense field of outlined bodily and mechanical fragments.
Falling Bloks (Neon)
Vertical abstract image with a dense cluster of red, pink and magenta interlocking shapes outlined in dark lines against a violet-blue ground. The central form appears busy and intricate, with many smaller internal passages and protrusions.
Vertical abstract image with a compact mass of red, pink and magenta interlocking shapes outlined in dark lines on a violet-blue ground. The central cluster feels denser and more block-like than its paired companion.

Asteroid I & II

Vertical abstract drawing with a dense cluster of turquoise, purple, brown and black forms rising along the right side against a broad violet-blue ground. A large magenta shape occupies the left, giving the composition a more open, asymmetrical structure.
Vertical abstract drawing with turquoise, magenta, purple, brown and black shapes arranged in a tall central stack against a deep blue-violet ground. The composition is more compact and upright than the related Night Landscape I.

Night Landscape I & II

Analogue collage-drawing with found text including “NO CARDHOLDER VERIFICATION,” “Do More” and “life,” with eyes, black graphic shapes, white line arcs and coloured pencil marks.
Do More Life
Analogue collage-drawing with the words “a snapshot?” and “analog,” a cut-out eye and mouth, a red speech-bubble-like shape, the phrase “Here for Good pa,” dense black scribbled areas and white drawn face-like structures.
Analog Snapshot
Analogue collage-drawing with the word “analog” across a central head-like figure, alongside a collaged smiling mouth, black-and-white eye-like forms, device-like fragments, pointed horn-like forms and areas of red, orange, yellow and turquoise coloured pencil.
Analog Figure
Square black, white and grey drawing of a fragmented reclining figure formed from broad dark shapes, angular planes and looping lines. Pale passages and fine grey marks cross the body, which remains partly merged with the surrounding structure.
Reclining Nude
Analogue drawing in red, orange, black and metallic silver, showing a blocky head-like structure with eye-like openings, jagged contours, stepped shapes and stitched black edges.
Block Head
Analogue drawing on dark card in white line and hatching, showing a dense head-like image with angular compartments, eye-like circles, a moustache-like central form and smaller face-like details.
Moustachioed Man
Square blue, black and silver-grey drawing of a fragmented head-like form filled with eyes, teeth, tubes, panels and mechanical shapes. Bright cyan areas and dense cross-hatching run through the crowded composition.
Cognition
Square black, white and grey drawing of an irregular head-like form filled with angular bands, cross-hatched shapes, circular elements and jagged teeth. A dense pale border surrounds the dark central mass.
Headshot
Small analogue drawing on card with a black scribbled border and a central white and pale blue-grey head-like form made from biomorphic and mechanical shapes, heavy black outlines, stippling and stitched marks.
Untitled (Head) I
Small analogue drawing on card with a blue scribbled ground and a central white segmented head-like form outlined in black, with stippling, stitched marks and a small hand-like cluster near the lower area.
Untitled (Head) II
Small colour analogue drawing on card with a yellow background and a central mask-like form made from turquoise, green, purple, orange, grey and black segments, with thick black outlines, stippling and stitched marks.
Untitled (Head) III
Small colour analogue drawing on card with a red and pink background and a spiky central mask-like form made from blue, orange, yellow, purple and black segments.
Untitled (Head) IV
Square drawing filled with dense black lines, loops and angular fragments that gather against a yellow ground into a broad skull-like form. Smaller face-like and figure-like shapes appear within the crowded surface.
Square black, white and grey ink drawing of a large fragmented skull-like head. Dense looping lines, jagged shapes, smaller face-like forms and dark filled areas crowd the composition, with pale paper showing through between the interlocking marks.

Skull I & II (after Otto Dix)

Square gold, bronze, grey and dark blue drawing outlined in yellow. Interlocking curved bands, spirals and enclosed shapes form a large head-like image that also suggests shifting elements of city, landscape and figure.
Bronze Age
Analogue drawing with turquoise outlines and brown, orange and dark blue shapes forming a dense lab-like scene with creature-like forms, circular eyes, tubes, vessels and improvised mechanical fragments.
Conspiracy Lab
Dense abstract drawing in red, blue, pink, green and ochre, with large figure-like forms, bird-like shapes, hands and patterned fragments. Cropped shapes continue across the edges so the panel can connect with the other three in different arrangements.
Bright abstract drawing with a crowded circular centre surrounded by ochre, blue, red, pink and turquoise forms. A large animal-like shape crosses the top, while cropped edge fragments allow the panel to connect with the other three.
Abstract drawing with large orange, ochre and blue forms crossing a field of smaller red, green, pink and violet fragments. Broad shapes reach the edges, allowing the panel to bridge and reconnect with the other three drawings.
Densely packed abstract drawing in red, pink, blue, green and ochre, with mask-like forms, eyes, mouths, hands and animal-like fragments. Cropped shapes reach every edge so the panel can connect with the other three in changing configurations.

Tiled Landscape I – IV

Abstract drawing in red, blue, green, white, metallic bronze, gold and black, with sweeping loops, enclosed fragments and unstable figure-like forms. Larger colour areas and broad connecting lines distinguish it from the denser Island II and Island III.
Island I
Dense abstract drawing outlined in red, with blue, silver-grey, black, metallic bronze and gold forms packed into circular bands, angular fragments and tube-like shapes. It is more compressed and intricate than the related Island I and Island III.
Island II
Abstract drawing in red, blue, white, black, metallic bronze and gold, with curved bands, pointed fragments and mouth-like openings gathered into a compact central mass. It is more contained than Island I and less densely intricate than Island II.
Island III
Colourful sketchbook spread on black paper, filled with interlocking white, pink, red, turquoise, green, gold and brown forms. Skull-like heads, eyes, limbs and stitched contours crowd both pages around the central gutter.
Skull Island
Horizontal black paper cut-out covered with dense white ink linework. Interlocking tubes, loops, angular blocks and eye-like forms fill the irregular silhouette, creating a compact, crowded island-like mass.
Island Thing
Vertical colour sketchbook drawing of a large abstract masked head above densely interlocking shapes and black-and-white linework. Deep blues, reds and turquoise dominate the upper section, with yellow, orange, pink and blue forms below.
Masked Head
Vertical sketchbook drawing on a deep violet ground, with a dense central mass of interlocking white, gold, brown, red, pink and blue forms. Small coloured fragments surround it, and a horizontal fold crosses the page.
Head Stone
Colourful sketchbook spread on a deep blue ground, filled with overlapping red, pink, white, black, turquoise and yellow forms. Rounded structures, figure-like fragments and eye-like details cross both pages around the central gutter.
Universal Thinking
Digitally reversed black sketchbook spread filled with dense white linework. Interlocking figures, eyes, limbs, teeth and creature-like forms cover both pages, divided by the central gutter and resembling pale stitched marks against a dark ground.
Page 7
Digitally reversed black sketchbook spread filled with dense white linework. Looping tubes, eye-like circles, angular heads and segmented body forms cover both pages, with larger enclosing shapes continuing across the central gutter.
Page 9
Digitally reversed sketchbook drawing with white line on black, showing dense interlocking biomorphic forms, stitched contour marks and an unstable field that suggests a map, figure or abstract organism.
Digitally reversed sketchbook drawing with white line on black, showing fragmented shapes, looping contours and repeated marks forming a crowded structure suggestive of a body, mask or constructed environment.
Digitally reversed sketchbook drawing with white line on black, filled with tubes, spikes, enclosed forms and interlocking organic-mechanical fragments.

Pages 1, 2 & 3

Abstract sketchbook spread with a blue-framed white linear structure on the left and denser pink, magenta, black and white forms on the right, joined by bright orange, red and blue accents.
Bleed I
Abstract sketchbook spread with blue-violet borders, large white interior areas, and scattered green, purple, blue, orange and pink forms linked by fine black contour lines.
Bleed II
Abstract sketchbook spread centred on a large magenta shape crossing both pages, surrounded by red, white, blue, lavender, orange and black forms with fine line-work running through the middle.
Bleed III
Two-page sketchbook drawing with dense stitched-looking outlines, pale washes and overlapping white, grey, pink and blue forms. A dark green field anchors the left page, while red surrounds and cuts through the right.
The Red & The Green

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