Glen Croe (otherwise known by the infamous name of the Rest and be Thankful) traverses the landscape connecting remote sections of Argyll and Bute via the A83 trunk road, between Arrochar and Inverary and the Campbeltown peninsula.

This road serves to connect rural communities and is a vital social and economic lifeline to these communities but has been devastated by a series of landslides over the past number of years. Changing ecosytems and weather patterns have led to the surrounding mountain landscape becoming unstable, deforestation over decades and a failure to manage the landscape and react to the effects of a changing climate have witnessed extreme devastation of the land, the trunk road and the ancient military road situated at the base of the glen.

The impact on rural communities and businesses has been devastating with huge diversions required to be able to navigate the countryside to access these rural spots. The original road was built by General Caulfeild, a British Army officer with responsibility (after General Wade) to strengthen the British army garrisons by connecting infrastructural arteries through Scotland to establish and strengthen military outposts to control the Jacobite army.

This work is a 200cm x 110cm digital photograph mounted on aluminium dibond. The large scale of the work aims to draw the viewer into the site and experience the hidden history of this landscape and place. Many of my works reference the history of infrastructure and the now largely forgotten or overlooked significance of place within our landscapes.

Glen Croe Landslide 31st August 2020 was exhibited at the Scottish Landscape Awards, in conjunction with the Scottish Arts Trust, at Kirkcudbright Galleries, running between 5th July - 28th September 2025. This work was selected from over 2100 submitted works. This work was awarded overall first prize in the exhibition from a distinguished panel of judges. The judges were David Mach RA (Chair of the judging panel), Annie Cattrell RSA, Jessica Harrison RSA, Lennox Dunbar RSA and Rachel MacLean (RSA Elect). The award of First Prize was unanimous from the judges and received the Lapeca Scottish Landscape Award of £10,000, kindly donated by the Howell family.

This work received an enormous amount of press coverage (online, newspapers, magazines and tv news bulletins) during the exhibition and a catalogue of all works in the group exhibition was available. The Exhibition received around 20,000 visitors. The work was praised for its quality and content, with the subject matter and background research having a huge impact on the judges and the visitors to the exhibition.

Exhibition catalogue produced by the Scottish Arts Trust, Scottish Landscape Award 2025, ISBN 978-1-0684979-1-9

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