Wall Paintings


  • Photographer
    Don McCrae
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Studio Lavalette

See "Deeper Perspective" text.

Story

Dating back to 17,0000 B.C., the polychrome cave paintings in South West France are probably the world's oldest artwork. Their age is remarkable but, for me, it's the fact that prehistoric man selected particular surfaces of his cave walls to add a physical depth and a rich expression to his paintings. Previously benign bulges in the rock-face were totally transformed when he circumscribed them with the outlines of horses, mammoths or bison: they became the bellies, legs or heads of the animals.

I’ve borrowed from this prehistoric paradigm and for the central narratives used photographs of the, now tamed, landscapes, townscapes and fruits of the land, all shot in France’s Dordogne and Charente regions. These have then been suffused into photographs of walls from the same areas. The cracks, chips, discolouration and erratic rough surfaces add an unexpected visual dimension and like the Neanderthal paintings, result in enriched photographic images.

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