Colm Moore
London / Glasgow
His shadow in the low sun
leans backwards from his heels
under a sky of scribbled chevrons, flying
into the bright, receding season,
while step by step he moves
towards his patient, white horizon.
(Excerpt from ‘Passing through September’ by Ian Abbot)
What lies in the space between two people? What can the landscape we share reveal to us?
In 2020, as the world came to a halt, two brothers began to make images together — quiet gestures shaped by a desire to understand their time and place.
That year, the elder, Colm, returned to the family home. He was 23; his brother, 15. What might have been a time of outward motion — of discovery, of growing apart — instead folded inwards. Over the next three years, with the outside world reduced to stillness, their shared space became the only terrain left to navigate.
Through image-making, they found a way to interrupt the static weight of days. The act itself —simple, deliberate — became a way to move, to reach, to make sense of the shifting ground beneath them. A camera turned toward the landscape they both shared, and then back toward what lived between them: the unspoken, the suspended, the held breath of silence. Within this environment, they uncovered a space for reflection — a place of both refuge and orientation.
They mirrored each other, and the landscape mirrored them. Together, they turned inward. In doing so, they began to trace their own movements through the world — slow, uncertain, but full of intent.This body of work is the residue of that dialogue: three years of quiet confrontation with fear, contradiction, and desire. A conversation between two brothers, held in a time when everything —and nothing — was in motion.
“This work resists a defined beginning or conclusion. It doesn’t offer answers and leaves threads untied. It’s a conversation between my brother and me, during a time when everything was in motion, while the landscape around us morphed and shifted. To steady ourselves, we moved deeper into our surroundings, searching for a hint, a landmark. The trees swayed, shadows deepened, and we stepped into unknown space. This is for my brother.”
Colm Moore (b. 1996) lives and works between London and Glasgow. He is a multidisciplinary artist engaging in long-form projects, allowing time to shape and guide his work. His art delves introspectively while simultaneously reflecting the times he lives amongst.
Call of a Swift marks Colm’s first self-published book — a handmade edition of 30 — which was launched and exhibited at Court Gallery, Glasgow
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