Po r tfo l i o March 2016
Portfolio I provide a specialist service in architectural photography - both modern and historic buildings - and in photography for heritage projects and sites - museums, galleries, townscapes, landscapes, regeneration schemes.
73 Whitehaugh Park, Peebles EH45 9DB T 01721 788005 M 07980 750301 colin@colinmcleanphotography.com www.colinmcleanphotography.com
Front cover: Abbotsford House Visitor Centre Opposite: Traditional Paisley Shawls from the collection of Paisley Museum & Art Gallery
Villas 1952-70 Client: Morris & Steedman Associates The Edinburgh practice formed by James Morris & Bob Steedman set a new standard for individual modernist homes in Scotland, taking their influences from Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. A number of their houses have been Listed, and I was commissioned by the practice to photograph a series of villas for an exhibition to be held in the Royal Scottish Academy as part of the Festival of Architecture 2016. The houses here are: The Wilson House, Lasswade The Sillitto House, Edinburgh The Hunt/Steedman Houses, Edinburgh The Principal’s House, Stirling Unmiversity The Leather House, Perth
http://www.msastudio.co.uk
Tourism Attractions and Heritage Projects Client: Jura Consultants Ltd Jura Consultants has a long history of involvement in the planning, implementaion and review of tourism and heritage projects. Managing Director Paul Jardine asked me to provide photographs to illustrate the wide range of the company’s work, and prints of many of the images are now displayed in the company’s board room. The images here include: New Lanark Abbotsford House and Visitor Centre Culzean Castle the Temple of the Muses, near Dryburgh (part of the Tweed Rivers Heritage Project)
http://www.jura-consultants.co.uk
John McAslan + Partners Surgeons’ Hall Museums, Edinburgh JMP were the architects for the comprehensive redevelopment of these museums, located in Edinburgh’s South Bridge. The insertion of a new glazed tower between the two buildings provided an elegant solution to a longstanding problem of access and, working with Campbell & Co exhibition designers, the displays were completely reworked.
http://www.mcaslan.co.uk
Opium Poppies, Flower Salads, Moonlit Dinners and Tall Tales Client: The Secret Herb Garden My first commissionfor the Secret Herb Garden came form a casual conversation with its owner, Hamish Martin, about his wonderful Opium Poppies, which I photographed for the Garden’s Facebook page. Hamish then commissioned me to photograph flower salads for an article he was writing for The Scottish Gardener, and the magazine used one of my images for its front cover. I also shot one of the Garden’s hugely successful Full Moon Dinners, with guest restaurant The Edinburgh Larder, and later a storytelling evening (for adults only) with the entrancing Amanda Edmiston.
http://secretherbgarden.co.uk
Lila Ruhurimbere, Intern at the David Livingstone Centre Client: Heritage Lottery Fund HLF commissioned portraits of Lila, who was undertaking an internship at the David Livingstone Centre to gain new museums skills in order to further her career prospects. Lila was doing research in the Centre’s archive and guiding parties of visitors to the Birthplace.
https://www.hlf.org.uk
Paisley Conservation Area Client: Renfrewshire Council Renfrewshire Council is committed to the comprehensive regeneration of the centre of this historic burgh, which has a remarkable concentration of historic buildings; in the main dating from its wealthy industrial past. The commission was to produce a comprehensive photographic record of the Conservation Area, carpturing individual buildings, details, materials, and streetscapes. Three days walking the streets of Paisley gave me an interesting opportunity to get to know its physical, and some of its social, fabric. The Council’s ambition for Paisley to become a UK Capital of Culture is a laudable one which, if realised, would be a great boost to the town’s future prosperity.
http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/home/ services/planning+and+building+standards/regeneration+projects/ce-paisleyregen-updates
Willow Tearooms, Glasgow Client: Willow Tearooms Trust The Trust acquired Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s historic Willow Tearooms in the city centre’s Sauchiehall Street. It plans to restore the Tearooms to their former glory and act as a catalyst for regeneration. I was commissioned to provide a comprehensive set of photographs of the exterior and interior for fundraising and promotional purposes.
http://www.willowtearoomstrust.org
House and Studio for Bernat Klein Architect: Peter Womersley These photographs were taken for my own interest. Those of the Studio were displayed in the Grey Gardens exhibition in Dundee Contemporary Arts (February to May 2016). The house for Klein was Womersley’s first significant commisison in Scotland (1955) and he returned to Womersley for his studio of 1971, now recognised as one of Scotland’s finest modernist buildings.
http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/grey-gardens
Penicuik House Client: Penicuik House PreservationTrust The Trust, which had completed the conservation of the house, commissioned record shots of the house itself and new photographs of the many built features in the neoclassical landscape. These were used for a Case for Support to raise funds to continue the restoration programme.
http://www.penicuikhouse.co.uk
River Tweed These photographs were taken for my own interest as part of a project to document the River Tweed and its catchment area. The four photographs here were selected for publication in OnLandscape magazine in March 2016, and the text is repeated from that article. I have photographed the River Tweed very many times since we came to live by it fifteen years ago. It’s a river that very much dominates the landscape as it runs nearly 100 miles from its source above Tweedsmuir all the way to Berwick. I know the river well. I have walked its banks on many occasions and kayaked the stretches near us over several years. It’s an integral part of our life in Peebles, making its mark wherever it goes. And as it flooded dramatically again in mid-January, it certainly made its mark for some unfortunate people. In these four pictures I think I have captured at last what the Tweed means to me. It sense of calm, quiet strength (something I have experienced directly from within the kayak). Its beauty as it runs through some narrow, rocky
gaps. And everywhere, the trees that lean over it. They were all taken on the same visit; a cold January day just after the first snows had fallen.
https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2016/03/subscribers-4x4-portfolios-110/
RPS Portfolio In 2014 I was fortunate to be awarded a Licentiate Distinction by the Royal Photographic Society. These are three examples from my portfolio, whihc was published in the RPS Journal in June of that year. They are; Millennium Bridge, Newcastle Wine bottles, Dordogne Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California
http://www.rps.org