Bau-Xi Photo is a new contemporary gallery in Toronto showcasing fine art photography by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. They represent 11 of my print editions and are holding their first group show of all artists from April 17th. I am very excited to be showing my work in Toronto and looking forwards to a solo show in September which will coincide with both the Flash Forward Festival 2010 and also the annual Nuit Blanche festival of night.

Dams steal the prize as the iconographic feature of hydroelectricity. However on the project so far I learnt how much of the engineering and secrets to the industry lie in the huge civil and underground earthworks deep within Scotland’s bedrock. Tolkienesque tunnels hewn through solid granite lead to massive engineering. Such as the 165m unlined access tunnel to Culligran Power Station.

Through a separate access tunnel, close to the base of Foyers’ Turbine Halls, is a 400m lined tunnel leading to a hall housing a side access portal. Calcium stalactites line the ceiling with everything coated in a thick film of solid lime. The echoey, impossibly deep rumbling sound of the generators starting had me peering into the gloom half expecting a wall of icy water to rush in.

Time Lapse of Grain Power Station and the tides. The video was shot from a derelict Sea Fort cut-off from the land apart from at low tide.