Kevin Low’s world is one of hunters and poets. It’s a place of creaking empires where shepherdesses’ watch and wait for someone the viewer understands will never return.

Using primarily 19^th century ceramics as his source material, he manipulates the work with vast changes in scale, flooding his work with colour.

His characters are all in some way part of an epic, each one inexplicably connected with the other. Perhaps this is through marriage, love, or lust. The only clue we have is in their titles, faint hints at love, loss and lust. What results from this strange archaeology, is a queer resurrection: a celebration of a rich gaudy past that never existed.

Kevin studied photography at Napier in Edinburgh before moving to Glasgow and working as a theatre photographer. He has had several solo exhibitions of his portrait photography, most notably ‘Pictures of People’ at the ‘Street Level Gallery’, in Glasgow, and ‘Cultural’ – an Edinburgh Festival commission - which toured several galleries in Scotland, and a permanent exhibition at the Macrobert in Stirling.

More recently he received a New Writers Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council and has collaborated as a writer with the theatre company ‘Tricky Hat’ on a number of performance project involving people with mental health issues.

Born in Forfar, Angus, he grew up on isolated farms and hamlets throughout that peculiar triangle marked out by the towns of Brechin, Montrose and Forfar, ‘something,’ he says, ‘that’s left a not unwelcome scar on my psyche’.