Work
Ashrowan's work is in video installation, still photographic works on paper and written texts, based upon close observation of natural landscapes. His earlier work was strongly influenced by John Ruskin. In 2007 Hamilton & Ashrowan were commissioned by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to make a series of moving-image portraits of Richard Demarco. In 2009 he produced a book of photographs of the border between England and Scotland. to accompany a solo exhibition of his film and photography installation 'Lament', exhibited in Romania. Ashrowan describes his work as a process of "honing down the overwhelming complexity of a given landscape place to find within it those images and movements in time that seem to hold the essence of a feeling, a vital intensity. Many of the images I create could be described as microcosms of place, emotion, time and memory."
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