“As a passenger the road is hypnotic”
David McCracken was born in Glasgow and moved to Kemnay aged 8, a small quarrying village with a large hole at its heart. After studying painting at Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art in Dundee, he settled in the northeast of Scotland to pursue his first love of printmaking.
He currently works at Peacock & the worm in Aberdeen and has his work represented in many distinguished collections including The Collection of the Bank of New York Mellon, The Scottish Parliament, Aberdeen Art Gallery and The De Beers Collection.
... a series of prints which present an idealised landscape – something we want to screech into, tyres blazing and head for the horizon. Owing much, obviously, to computer gaming, they simplify the world, and make places in which (we think) we could be something more cleanly one dimensional than we are forced to be on this grubbily complicated planet. Let the snow fall and the fir trees take on their white edging – this is a place neither cold nor hot….
- Mike Russell MSP, Minister for Culture, 2007
Paper Size: 88 x 107 cm
Medium: Screenprint
Edition Size: 22
Year: 2007