A little faith in the tension between how lost I am and how found I feel…

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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.

ART HOUSE 14

Art House 14 for Art Walk Porty Art Houses, 2025.

HANDS

A recurring fascination - human hands…video work, mixed media collage, 35mm photography and digital imagery.

TUB THUMP

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.

BLACK & WHITE

Black and white series of mixed media collages and sketch paintings.

SILHOUETTES : COLOUR

Colour silhouettes - ongoing thematic work in digital, phone and film photography, mixed media collage and polaroid lifts.

IMAGINED SHORES : SKETCHBOOK

Sketchbooks, mixed media collages, surrealist frottage and cut up poem ideas, all inspired by the shoreline.

IMAGINED SHORES : PHOTOGRAPHY

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.

SCARLET

If I see red velvet, I’m touching it and snapping it. Ongoing studies.

KALEIDOSCOPE

Presenting the video element of my installation for recent studio residents’ group exhibition, KALEIDOSCOPE at Out of the Blue Drill Hall.

SUNRISE SALUTATION

Join my beach cult. A series.

POEMS

Some poems, written between 2018 and 2023.

HOME

HOME; a residents’ exhibition. Curated by me with over 20 neighbours from my studios at The Drill Hall, Leith.

ART HOUSE 8

Art House 8 - open doors for Art Walk Porty 2024

NOW LOVE

Solo exhibition, Feb-Mar 2024 at Agitate Gallery, Studies in Photography, William Street, Edinburgh.

ADVENTURES OF CLIVE

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.

RED ROOM

Love, desire, grief, self exploration, fairtytales, crisps. Welcome to the red room.

SELF

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.