Artist filmmaker. 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 processes.
Mentoring + Teaching
2023 - ongoing. Independent peer-mentor for creative practitioners and researchers. Support for new work production and development; practice-based PhDs (applications and doctoral research); career development and transition to new fields of practice; artists’ moving image projects. Email me if you would like to talk about mentorship for your project. [read some testimonials]
2024 - 2025. Supervisor, MA Film Practice, Arts University Bournemouth, UK
2024. Guest Lecturer, Bachelors in Applied Midwifery (Ethics), Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin.
2019 - 2022. Lecturer in Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK.
2013 - 2019. Tutor in Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK.
I have 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. I have been a research mentor for the Collective Gallery’s Satellite Programme, and board member of the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, 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 (2012-15), my PhD in Art was co-supervised in Cognitive Philosophy by Prof Andy Clark, FBA. Titled ‘Voicing Uncertainty’, my research focuses on voice as a sculptural object and its role 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.
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From 2011-2014 I was part of LUX/CCA Critical Forum, an informal monthly discussion group of artists and researchers engaged with artists’ moving image. We met at CCA Glasgow and were supported by LUX in London before LUX Scotland was established in 2014. The forum was a platform to discuss a wide range of issues provoked by the practices and interests of the individuals involved.
From 2020-2024 when developing and producing my film, As You Were (2024), I was welcomed as an honorary member of the NHS Lothian Midwifery Research Network, a collaborative professional group in Scotland that connects clinical and academic midwives with researchers.
New texts on my work
No babies, no boobs, no bumps: Lyndsay Mann in conversation with Calum Neill, with an introduction by Ruth Bretherick. Tate Papers, no. 37: Mother Lines, Ed. Lisa Stein, Tate, London (2026).
Birth knowledge and institutional experiences: Lyndsay Mann’s ‘As You Were’, by Camilla Mørk Røstvik. Art and the Critical Medical Humanities. Ed., Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead, Imogen Wilshire, Bloomsbury, UK (2026).
CODA in, In living colour: realism and abstraction in anatomical models of the female reproductive body, 1880–1900, by Jessica M Dandona. Art and the Critical Medical Humanities (as above).
Selected exhibitions + events
2026: Experimental Pedagogies, University of Wien, Austria (workshop); no babies, no boobs, no bumps, Tate Research Papers, London (published conversation).
2025: As You Were, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (screening); I’ve been Trying to Reach You, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, UK (film commission with Anna Chapman-Parker); Modern Mothering, Childhood and Healthcare, Turku City Library, Finland (exhibition and artist talk); Fertility Fortunes, The Bomb Factory, London (screening); Filming Text, Forming Text, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, UK (workshop with Anna Chapman-Parker); As You Were for International Day of the Midwife, Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, Royal Infirmary Hospital, Edinburgh (screening).
2024: Sea Change Film Festival, Tiree (screening); Confabulations X Health & Care, Royal College of Art, London (symposium); Contemporary insights from historical objects, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin (artist talk). 2023: Listening Forward Symposium, IMPULS Festival, Leipzig (performance lecture); 2022: Confabulation: (Re)producing Reproduction, Durham University and Queens University, Ontario (artist talk); Desert is a Forest, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (exhibition); 2021: Re-Rooting, Folkestone Triennial Fringe (exhibition); 2020: Florilegium, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (exhibition); 2019: New Mothers’ Assembly, Surgeons’ Hall Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (workshop series); Looking at the Past, Understanding the Present, Shaping the Future, Goethe Institute, Glasgow(artist talk); 2018: Character Double, LUX Scotland (workshop); Seeing Systems, videoclub + ArtScience Museum, Singapore (exhibition); >>FFWD, Current moving Image from Scotland, Cooper Gallery, Dundee (exhibition); 2017: Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (exhibition); 2016: Say-so, Glasgow Film Festival and MAP, (curated screening programme and film commission); The Extended Voice, Transmediale and Aarhus University, Denmark, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (article).
