moving through a shifting landscape…
Al Keddie is a Scottish-born photographer and visual artist based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, his practice spans photography, painting, animation, and digital processes, with landscape and our place within it as a central concern. He has lived and worked in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland since 2011.
Photography underpins his image-making, employing in-camera movement, long exposure, glitch, and iterative reworking to produce works that drift between recognition and abstraction.
His paintings and abstract works both draw from and feed back into photographic ways of seeing, while evolving their own material logic of surface, gesture, and colour.
Across mediums, his work embraces accident, ambiguity, and play, building layered images that remain open, unstable, and subject to shifting interpretation.
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2011
Commended: ‘Take a View’ Landscape Photographer of the Year, London
2010
Winner: Get Me Down Under / Intrepid / Royal Brunei Photography Contest
2008
Edinburgh Festival: Solo exhibition at Tea Tree Cafe Gallery
Kiklop 08, Pula Book Fair, Croatia: Stribor’s Forest wins Best Design and Best Children’s Book
2007
Ovca u Kutiji (Sheep in a Box), Croatia: Stribor’s Forest wins Design of the Year Award
2004
Anima Web, Rio de Janeiro: Dog Dreams awarded 2nd place by Professional Jury
Lucca Comics & Games, Lucca, Italy: Croatian Tales wins Best Multimedia Work of the Year
Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy : Croatian Tales reaches final in the Films for Internet
2003
Golden Award of Montreux, Switzerland: Croatian Tales gains a Finalist Award Certificate
Flash in the Can, Toronto, Canada: Croatian Tales reaches final in the Story Category
SXSW Interactive, Austin, Texas: Croatian Talesreaches final in the Animation Web Award
Nobiliska, Zagreb, Croatia: Croatian Tales wins ZEON, Publishing Project of the Year
SICAF, Seoul, Korea: Stribor’s Forest reaches final in the Internet Film Competition
Festival Videoforme, Clermont, France: Croatian Talesreaches final in New Media Contest
Zagreb City Award: Croatian Tales awarded for international success in Croatian film
Festival of Croatian Film, Zagreb: Croatian Tales wins the ‘Zlatna uljanica’
2002
Flash Forward, San Francisco: Croatian Tales wins 1st place in the Story Category.
Net Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Croatian Tales wins 1st place in the Story Category
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria: Croatian Tales is a finalist in the Net Projects Competition
Festival International du Film d’Animation, Annecy, France: Stribor’s Forest and Dog Dreams reach final in the Internet Film Competition.
Flash Award, Hamburg: Dog Dreams reaches final in competition
Digit Magazine Webcreate: Dog Dreams is runner up in competition
2001
Aspen Shortsfest, Colorado: Dog Dreams screened in festival program
Flashkino, Berlin: Dog Dreams screened in festival program
Hotwired Animation, USA: Dog Dreams screened in festival program