As a lens-based artist I work with digital media in both still and moving image. The main body of my work is the production of time-based single, dual and multi-channel video projections with ambient sound, presented in immersive installations and screenings in site-specific, gallery and cinematic locations.
The work moves between the still and moving image, with tone & colour inversions causing perceptual and temporal slippage and estrangement, accentuating anomalous materiality, ambiguities and the unknowable
Based on the time-based installations I also produce prints in various formats. Digital C-type prints on aluminium in installations of multiple images, often triptychs, or singly mounted on lightboxes. I am at present developing photogravure and colour polymer intaglio prints.
For the last 12 years I have worked from my main base in Coigach, in the far northwest of Scotland. Embedded in the experience of this remote and elemental landscape and coastal-scape of Coigach, Wester Ross and the Hebrides has underpinned my focus on ‘Ecology and Art’ work and curatorial projects. The core issues in my work are an ecological consciousness of Earth’s aeonic timespan and the evolution and sustainability of the biosphere in the face of anthropogenic destruction and climate change.
These issues are the central focus of my 5 year series of work in the “Aeonic” project. Central to the recent development is the “Tellus Nullius” body of work. “Nullius” is a term relating to the notion of territory unclaimed or unowned. ”Tellus” is the Earth and its three spheres - the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, the lithosphere and their ecosphere.
I enact my practice through both research and creative processes, previously working within Science/ Art collaborative and research projects at centres including: King’s College London, University College Londonand University of Wales Aberystwyth on critical issues of visual and spatial perception and consciousness, altered states of mind and immersive experience.
Working largely outside of the commercial gallery system, I focus on developing projects in public centres and non-gallery, site specific installations in unusual venues and locationss, often with significant past histories: railway arches, old pubs, an ex-tea warehouse, old church, ex-engineering works etc.
I am presently working towards an “Art & Ecology North” symposium and network that originally was planned as the central focus of the Aeonic project. This was to culminate in a scheduled solo exhibition at An Talla Solais, Ullapool, in Sept/Oct 2020 and touring. Unfortunately postponed 3 times due to Covid shutdowns & then the gallery’s loss of key site, this project is still on track and I hope to realise these plans in 2022-23.
I have exhibited nationally across the UK, and internationally in Holland and Germany, in independent and public galleries and in independent site-specific locations. I have also worked and exhibited within Science/ Art collaborative and research projects at institutions including: King’s College London, University College London, University of Wales Aberystwyth and University of Gloucester on issues of visual and temporal consciousness.
Earlier exhibitions in public galleries include: Ikon Gallery Birmingham; Bluecoat Centre, Liverpool; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Bradford City Art Gallery and Museum; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. Private gallery exhibitions include: Corr Contemporary Art, Voltar Gallery London, and Brün Gallery, Dusseldorf,
Site-specific installation projects include: London- Aeon in defunct offices; Anon in an old bank, Next Stop in Strand Underground Station; Track in Shoreditch railway arches: Solitaire series in Bethnal Green defunct pub, Hoxton warehouse and Rio Cinema Hackney: internationally -“Kunsystemen” in Maastricht and Roermond, Holland.
For the last 12 years I have worked between my home & studio in Coigach in the far north west of Scotland and a base in London, where I am a visiting artist & associate lecturer in Visual Culture Studies in Medical Humanities, at King’s College, London.
Selected exhibitions & professional practice 2005 - present
2022-3 Aeonic Solo show, An Talla Solais, Ullapool (Covid postponed Sept 2020, April 2021. Autumn 2021)
2021. Group Show Hulabhaig, Isle of Lewis, Hebrides.
Light of Day Artquest (online) Selected artist
2020. Oceanus Nullius Single channel video projection, Southwark Park Galleries Annual Open
All At Sea Screening of Oceanus Nullius by Artwalks Projects: Portobello, Edinburgh.
Room. Group show. An Talla Solais Gallery & online, Ullapool
Women Making Noise 4 person show, University Women’s Club, London
2019 Nature Morte Screening & presentation, King’s College London, Guy’s Campus
Group Exhibition, An Talla Solais Art Centre, Ullapool, NW Scotland.
2018 Exhibition & Symposium, 3 person, University Women’s Club, London
Group Exhibition, An Talla Solais Art Centre, Ullapool, NW Scotland.
2017. Nature Morte 3 channel video Installation, Galleria Acme Studios, Peckham, London
2016 Era-se II Single channel video sccreening, Peckham, London
2015. Timespan Exhibition/ installation. Elmfield House, London N5
2014 Era-se I Site specific installation, Stratford London
2013 Blindsight Moving image installation, Kings College, London, Guy’s Campus.
2012. Aeon II 2 channel video projection installation in Making Space PhD exhibition & conference. Woburn Research Centre, University College London.
2011 Anon Exhibition, Martello St. Gallery & Studios, London E8
Aeon II Site-specific installation, Farra Buildings, London Bridge
2010. Aeon I 2 channel video installation In ‘Spillage’ exhibition. Woburn Research Centre, Univ Coll London.
2009. Anon II Installation & exhibition, Voltar Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
Anon I & II Installation, Oscar’s Gallery, Univ of E London
2008 Theorie Cum Praxis AV-PhD Conference Exhibition & conf presentation, Slade School of Fine Art,
Anon II Site-specific installation, Old Bank Bldng, Newington Causeway, London SE1.
2007 Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art & Architecture Exhibition & Conference presentation, Woburn Research Centre, Slade School of Fine Art & Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Anon I Exhibitio, screeningn & Symposium presentation 2nd International Conference- 'Consciousness, Theatre, Literature & the Arts’ at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
2006 Drawing Viewpoints Exhibition & Symposium, Faculty of Art & Design, University of Gloucester
2005 Images in Mind Final exhibition & symposium & presentation Guy’s Campus, Kings College, London
2002-5 Images in Mind. Science/Art collaborative project w. Professor M.Forsling, Dept of Neuroscience Research, King’s College, London
