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A recurring fascination - human hands…video work, mixed media collage, 35mm photography and digital imagery.
I’ve made videos and images in the bath for a few years. I find it a great place for thinking, for regulating emotions and cleaning up my act. Some images from 2017 onwards.
Colour silhouettes - ongoing thematic work in digital, phone and film photography, mixed media collage and polaroid lifts.
Sketchbooks, mixed media collages, surrealist frottage and cut up poem ideas, all inspired by the shoreline.
I have an unhealthy amount of phone, film and digital photographs of the shoreline near our home. Here is a very small selection to show some of the avenues of imagination they present.
Presenting the video element of my installation for recent studio residents’ group exhibition, KALEIDOSCOPE at Out of the Blue Drill Hall.
HOME; a residents’ exhibition. Curated by me with over 20 neighbours from my studios at The Drill Hall, Leith.
Solo exhibition, Feb-Mar 2024 at Agitate Gallery, Studies in Photography, William Street, Edinburgh.
I’ve had Clive the mannequin since collage in 2013. As the lady I bought him from had named him I’ve always found it hard to part with him so he’s followed me to 3 homes and 2 studios. He’s appeared in my photography sporadically throughout, featuring heavily on a now deleted instagram account I had from around 2016 to 2020, Clive’s most prolific era.
He can now be found at The Drill Hall but he’s had some adventures. I’ve also always loved images of mannequins and phrenology heads taken out of context or found in unusual places, perhaps a tip of the cap to some of the work of the surrealists but also I’ve always loved the shopfront shots and street scenes of Paris by Eugene Atget, from around the 1920s.
I’m not usually a fan of traditions, except the ones we build for ourselves. I’ve a deep distrust of prescribed fun so it’s partly my innate contrariness but I have over the last 3 years given myself a creative challenge at the start of the new year. It’s not a resolution, ok.
Studies of spaces in the Bellfield and a few gig shots, taken for promo for the venue before lockdown kicked in.
I made this light box painting thing after visiting much missed pals at their new (ridiculously beautiful art nouveau monochrome feast of a) home in Hamburg.
I carried this unhelpful word around with me for years. It was hiding under every decision and action I took.
ROLL THE DICE - a collaborative video installation in a wooden arcade console, commissioned by Art Walk Porty in conjunction with Nobles Amusements, funded by Creative Scotland. Showing at Visual Art Scotland RSA show, The Thread That Pulls, Dec 25-Jan 26.