Artist filmmaker and academic. Berlin/Edinburgh.
querying the ways that authority is constructed
How do embodied experiences of individuals within the institution shape institutional practices?
My work centres around voice. I connect with communities of practice and scholarship, such as botany and medicine, where claims of objective knowledge meet lived experiences and community expertise. I use embodied methods to facilitate conversations in intimate settings or public forums. I access archival objects and materials to situate current thinking within an historical lineage. My multi-modal approach generates questions around the values placed on different forms of knowledge; the power supported by these values, as well as the hierarchies that they produce; and the subjects that become other through these practices.
Mentoring / Teaching
2024 - ongoing. Supervisor, MA Film Practice, Arts University Bournemouth, UK
2023 - ongoing. Independent peer-mentor (visual arts) for: practice-based PhDs; new work production and development; artists’ moving image projects. If you would like to talk about mentorship for your project send me an email. [read some testimonials]
2013 - 2022. Lecturer in Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK.
I have also taught on the Post-Graduate Film Studies programme at the University of Edinburgh; Undergraduate programme in Sculpture at University of Dundee; and Foundation Course at Leeds College of Art, UK.
Education + Academic Research
I was the first in my family to go on to further education. I studied at Cumbria College of Art, Carlisle (Foundation); Central Saint Martins College of Art, London (BA Hons); and Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (PhD).
Awarded the inaugural ECA Art PhD Scholarship, my PhD in Art was co-supervised in Cognitive Philosophy by Prof Andy Clark, FBA. Titled, Voicing Uncertainty, my research focuses on the role of Voice in Artists’ Moving Images. Using concepts of embodiment and extension from the Philosophy of Cognition, Voicing Uncertainty examines processes of practice that harness uncertainty to produce the experience of being heard for both the maker and the viewer.
Exhibitions and Events
Recent exhibitions and events include: Modern Mothering, Childhood and Healthcare, Turku City Library; As You Were, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Fertility Fortunes, The Bomb Factory, London; Sea Change Film Festival, Tiree; Confabulations X Health & Care, Royal College of Art, London; Contemporary insights from historical objects, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin; Listening Forward Symposium, IMPULS Festival, Leipzig; Confabulation: (Re)producing Reproduction, Durham University and Queens University, Ontario; Desert is a Forest, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; Re-Rooting, Folkestone Triennial Fringe; Florilegium, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; New Mothers’ Assembly, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; Seeing Systems, videoclub + ArtScience Museum, Singapore; Utter, Utter, Utter, Cooper Gallery, Dundee; Character Double, LUX Scotland; >>FFWD, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; The Extended Voice, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Say-so, Glasgow Film Festival + MAP; Viewing Voices, Edinburgh International Film Festival, with Scottish Documentary Institute, and LUX, London; Lyndsay Mann, (solo) Careof Center for Contemporary Art, Milan.
