Degree Show Proposal 2020

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Depth of Field

Still from Depth of Field video which forms part of a video installation

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Extended Ladder

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Endings

An audio piece created to accompany the depth of field video installation as part of the virtual degree show simulator 2020.

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Whistling hills, 2019

Experimentation for Group Show at Lang Craigs in collaboration with The National Trust

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Holding water, 2018

This work came about after reading Ursula Le Guin’s essay ‘A Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’. Within the essay, Le Guin examines how we are fed a narrative of the hero within our understanding of history. We are more likely to hear tales of war and conquest than the stories of the day to day life. Within the more domesticated side of history is written a story of collaboration, with each other but also in negotiating the environments we have found ourselves in. Whilst we look at the tools of war in our history, we sometimes dismiss the role of tools such as the bowl, which allowed us to transport water from source to home. The bowl allowed us to contain water, something that, in its natural state, cannot be held and even though contained continues to flow and react to the environment around it.

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Envelop/Embrace, 2017

Considering the growth of a tree, new layers are formed and enveloped by the outer bark. The small but constant growth cannot be seen by the human eye, so we read the age of a tree by the rings it bares once we cut into it. The cloth becomes an external layer, embracing the growth within the trunk. As human beings we are often comforted by the natural landscape, to embrace something is an act of care, a sign of affection. Responding to this sense of touch within a natural space allows us to further understand and engage ourselves with the environment. This work was made as part of a project of acquaintance. Reading the sculpted landscape as an inscription of its own ongoing growth we can become acquainted with the innumerable dynamic processes perpetually acting on an environment. Within this project I was attempting to make transient work that collaborated with elements of these processes, taking the form of intuitive, performative and material actions that reimagined the growth and development at work. Not wanting to disturb the environment the works remained in place for a short period of time and were made using natural materials.

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Remnants of Clay Drag, 2017

This work was made as part of a project of acquaintance. Reading the sculpted landscape as an inscription of its own ongoing growth we can become acquainted with the innumerable dynamic processes perpetually acting on an environment. Within this project I was attempting to make transient work that collaborated with elements of these processes, taking the form of intuitive, performative and material actions that reimagined the growth and development at work. Not wanting to disturb the environment the works remained in place for a short period of time and were made using natural materials.

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My interests lie in the creative space between physical realities and perception. Seeing the world, as a constructed place, I make use of liminal, in between spaces. I make work in order to question the formation of narrative and ideology that we hold to be true, and how this leaks into our physical relationship to a place.

In a contemporary era of ecological crisis I think it is important that we apply this form of questioning to our cultural relationship to the environment. It is clear that our current structures have been detrimental to our natural space. Through disrupting what we would expect of the natural landscape I hope to encourage the consideration of a viewers personal narrative in relation to that environment. Placing works within this context necessitates a consideration of our place within the natural world, as well as a relinquishing of control. In making work I try to form a collaboration between my own ideas, natural phenomena and, when viewed, an audience’s own ‘constructed space’.

More information about my work can be seen on my website.

I, as a graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay Campaign.