Alternative Guide for Walking: Photographs
Alternative Guide for Walking responds to the outdoors as a space to discuss identity politics and community-based making. The project resulted in a publication, which included photographic and written work, produced both independently and collaboratively, whilst walking between Arrochar and Inveruglas. Each outcome included in the publication was made in response to a series of guidelines written by the group before the walk, which provided construct and intentions for making whilst walking. The overall project focused on providing new narratives and removing old preconceptions surrounding walking, forming a new outlook towards our environments and community groups.
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Alternative Guide for Walking: Photographs
Alternative Guide for Walking responds to the outdoors as a space to discuss identity politics and community-based making. The project resulted in a publication, which included photographic and written work, produced both independently and collaboratively, whilst walking between Arrochar and Inveruglas. Each outcome included in the publication was made in response to a series of guidelines written by the group before the walk, which provided construct and intentions for making whilst walking. The overall project focused on providing new narratives and removing old preconceptions surrounding walking, forming a new outlook towards our environments and community groups.
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Alternative Guide for Walking: Publication
Black & white digitally printed 40 pages publication, perfect bound with soft cover, 12 x 20.5cm. A collaboration with Jess Hay, Sofie Keller and Silke Zapp. Originally presented at the Lunchtime Gallery, 2020. Writing within set guidelines and whilst producing photographic imagery forms new variables in language compared to writing freely. The text included within this page is a response to the following guideline: ‘When the space allows it, each split off and take as many steps as you feel necessary. Find a space for yourself and write a reflection on your surroundings.’ This pocket-sized guide has been designed to be recreated by others, which includes the guidelines towards the end of the book, so that others are encouraged to reconsider new forms of walking. This collaboration is a continuing project, with its next iteration being a public walk that invites others to walk with us and further expand the conversation.
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Something Now
A bare hand lifts to wipe screen-printed words from a glass surface with saliva as the glass swings back and forth, leaving a murky cloud of ink. Within this short moving image, the easy removal of language, memory and the fragility in emotion are each contemplated. With a strong focus on the layout and surface of the text, the flat perspective seen in the work forms a midway between a written or photographic work and a sculpture.
placeholder for a power of sorts ii
Silicone cast antlers, 23 x 63cm. These antlers cast in silicone lack the structural integrity of their porcelain counterparts, placeholder for a power of sorts i, creating a clear juxtaposition that reflects the removal of power, and fragility. Considered within this are the themes of gender politics, hunting, and ritualism.
Ropewalk (Stills)
A collaboration with Sean Kemp, consisting of a 20 minute performance and a sculptural installation at the Garment Factory, as part of the group show Hopelessly Devoted, 2019. Surrounding the ritual creation of a rope, Ropewalk is a dialogue focusing on the dynamics of power and migration. This work foregrounds the process of traditional rope-making methods, demonstrating the act of making as an act of healing. The movements constructing the rope are accompanied by spoken word and throughout both actions, the concepts of constraint, bonds and navigation are discussed.
Ropewalk (Stills)
A collaboration with Sean Kemp, consisting of a 20 minute performance and a sculptural installation at the Garment Factory, as part of the group show Hopelessly Devoted, 2019. Surrounding the ritual creation of a rope, Ropewalk is a dialogue focusing on the dynamics of power and migration. This work foregrounds the process of traditional rope-making methods, demonstrating the act of making as an act of healing. The movements constructing the rope are accompanied by spoken word and throughout both actions, the concepts of constraint, bonds and navigation are discussed.
Ropewalk: 609 Swallow
Black vinyl lettering, 2 x 13cm. Alongside the live performance, Ropewalk included a series of site specific installations of vinyl lettering. Throughout the building, a series of numbered swallows were placed in unsuspecting places, such as bathroom sinks, stairwells and lifts. The swallows are an indication and reflection of the script performed, to which the act of swallowing and the bird in migration are two pivotal motifs.
Scripts, or manifestos
Screen-printed textiles, each 74 x 270cm. Scripts, or manifestos is a five part series following a longer exploration of displaying language. The works are made to be activated by viewers, through being read aloud and turned on a hand built metal wringer, which allows the text to be read from either side by two viewers. Within this work, there is a consideration towards how language develops when read together, compared to being read alone. This is pertinent to the critique of broken systems, both within institutions and throughout political hierarchies, included in the text. The language reflects upon personal experiences as well as a universal human condition, written over a ten month period. It has developed through other forms of printed mediums and sound works.
Pause or Pay Campaign
As a graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, I would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay Campaign. Please read the manifesto here: www.pauseorpayuk.org