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Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion began collaborating in 1993. They work in a range of media including video, photography, sculpture and sound that has been widely exhibited, including the Venice Biennale, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. They were recipients of a Creative
Scotland Award in 2005.
Location: Courtyards
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The Ontological Garden
For the courtyard, the artists have created a ‘garden’ of stylised trees – a rowan, a Scots pine and two silver birches. These trees are commonly found growing throughout Scotland, and are iconic of the rich botanical climate that surrounds us.
The ‘trees’ are influenced in design both by traditional illustrations in children’s fiction as well as the imaginative world of computer graphics. The artists drew on many different resources and processes to create the trees, including scientific
molecular models for the red berries of the rowan.
The persistent wind has played a part in creating the characterful silhouettes we are all familiar with along coastlines and on the sheer walls of valleys. Here worlds are created which, when entered into, can seem magical. The mighty splendour of the ancient Scots pine, the intimate hollows created amongst a glade of birches and the eerie silence of woods carpeted with moss. It is to this imaginative world that the Ontological Garden refers; to this and to the mini ‘kingdoms’ that as children we all create when left to play in gardens, parks or woodlands.
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