Artist statement
Concepts
To create a living landscape, not in representational terms, but as a voyage of the mind and exploration of material. Also to glean from nature and discarded man-made debris, like any beachcomber.
To navigate through human emotion. My subject is the figure in the landscape, but the human presence is hinted at, rather than stated and mostly it is my own creative response to something observed, reworked in the mind and recalled from memory. Influences
Environment/Ecology, Nature, Music, Poetry, Literature, Architecture, Scottish landscape.
Career path
Edinburgh College of Art; Art teacher in primary and secondary schools, in Orkney, for 8 years; Curator of the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, for 12 years; an artist since 1990, and presently working as an artist in Orkney and Zurich, Switzerland.
Solo exhibitions
- 2008 A part APART, The Loft Gallery, Orkney
- 2006 04-04, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
- 2003 EBA4, Architextburo Patrick Thurston, Bern, Switzerland
- 2002 Sea/Lines, Galerie Schwenk, Castrop-Rauxel, DE
- 2002 Almost Square, Galerie Dosch, Zürich, CH
- 2001 Works on Paper, Stüa Granda, Soglio, CH
- 2000 Forum For Rum, Altekrone, Stäfa, CH (including monoprints with Lea Cohen)
- 2000 Erlend Brown, Stüa Granda, Soglio, CH
- 1996 Erlend Brown, Galerie Im Hochhuus, Küsnacht, Zürich
- 1994 Peir And Ocean, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
- 1994 Peir And Ocean, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
- 1993 Peir And Ocean, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
- 1991 Festival Exhibition, Black Pig Gallery, Kirkwall
- 1988 Conflux, Galerie Anita Dosch, Zurich
- 1983 Piers And Objects, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Group exhibitions
- 2011 The Booth Collection, Bonhoga Gallery, Weisdale, Shetland
- 2010 Jubileum Ausstellung, Vebikus Galerie, Schaffhauasen, Switzerland
- 2009 Joint exhibition with Lea Cohen, Breck Studio, Birsay, Orkney
- 2001 3 Europäische, Galerie Schwenk, Castrop -Rauxel, DE, Positionen Zum Thema (with Teresa Cardelli Ita & Vassiliki CZ), Landschaft
- 2000 Happy Birthday, Gutenburg Pavillion, Mainz, DE, Johannes
- 2000 Friedensgrüsse, Vortragsaal der Kunsthaus Zürich CH
- 2000 Neue Kunst In Alten, Studio 10, Chur (Schneider Zunft) CH, Gemauer - installation
- 2000 21st Gear, The Top Room, London, England
- 1999 Silver, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, Scotland
- 1998 Play, Stromness Library, Orkney, Scotland
- 1998 Resonant Colours, Coningsby Gallery, London, England
- 1997 Graphik, Stromness Library, Orkney, Scotland
- 1997 The Judge Hangs, Michael Parkin Gallery, London
- 1996 Nine Days On Foula, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
- 1994 Tohuwabohu, Hodshill Studios, Near Bath
- 1993 Sails In St Magnus, St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
- 1992 Black Pig Goes South, Smith Galleries, London
- 1992 Imprints, Stromness Academy Foyer, Orkney
- 1991 12th International Triennial Of Original Graphic Prints, Grenchen, Switzerland
- 1991 Hardangerutstillinga, Hardanger, Norway
- 1990 Four Scottish Artists, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
- 1990 5000 Years Of Orkney Art, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness and Tour
Residencies
- 2004 10th Anniversary of Bonhoga Gallery Residency, Booth sponsored by Shetland Arts Trust, Scalloway, Shetland
Public commissions
- 2009 Puffin Hall Mural, Dählhölzli Zoo, Bern, Switzerland
Projects
- 2004 Kultursommer Greina, Area of Carpet la greina, Greina, Swiss Alps
- 2003 Lichtfaenger (Lightcatcher), Utobadi, Zurich
