"... Grierson imbues her subject with poignancy... these are technically impressive images. ....(she) succeeds in her aim of seducing us visually before we quite realise the troubling things we are looking at.''
Elisabeth Mahoney • The Guardian

In this vibrant and thought provoking solo exhibition, Su Grierson uses digitally manipulated photographic images and video works to explore rural landscapes in Scotland and abroad which, though idyllic in setting, have become home to huge industrial complexes.

In these images, panoramic views remind us of the concealed contamination within the landscape - power stations expel gases in huge mesmerising plumes, which contribute to our sense of unease through their rich colour saturation. These images are deceptively beautiful and their impact is increased by a sense of contradiction we cannot ignore.
Video works explore the same locations through time and space, using video techniques of panning, zooming, speed variability and lens flare. They interrogate the landscape and force us to engage with imagery to which previously we may have turned a blind eye. In Australasia, the term 'eyeshine' refers literally to the gleam reflected off the eye of the crocodile, dazzled by the lamp of the nocturnal hunter. This work invites viewers to confront a contemporary blind spot, drawing attention to landscape as masquerade.

"EYESHINE came about through visiting sites where industrial complexes exist in areas of rural beauty. Here is the ultimate point of collision, where the rural 'ideal' becomes the ideal place to contain the industrial sites that are both the product of, and the producers for, the necessities of modern life. These EYESHINE images are presented as sites of wonder and seductive beauty, they address our (the viewers) desire for visual gratification. They reference a photographic history of landscape documentation and the desire for the 'ideal' in both composition and subject. However in these works, to reach that point of satisfaction, the viewer must first overwhelm their knowledge of the place.” Su Grierson

“Su Grierson’s hallucinatory images are simultaneously calming in their serenity and disturbing in their portent... As an artist she sets out to provoke questions. In effect she uses the rhetoric of the pastoral to cause us to pause to consider that which it so often serves to mask”
Liz Wells, in her exhibition publication essay ‘Monstrous Beauty’

A sixteen page full colour publication was been produced to accompany the exhibition.