My work is an  investigation into the limits of visual perception as a measure of reality.  My work explores notions of time, duration, history and memory.   My work is realised in video, audio, photographic, and sculptural pieces. 

The Upper Clyde Reflection Series was conceived as a contemporary conceptual documentation of a river that was essential to the creation and development of the British Empire.

00:06:03:08 is a digital degeneration of both sound and image. The natural element of water is progressively reduced to its digital essence – a series of pulsating patterns of light on the surface of a glass screen.

00:00:45:00 takes its form from a found roll of film of 15 photographs, which upon inspection contained within its sequence 3 photographs taken in Hiroshima, Japan, sometime shortly after the atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ was dropped over the city. 00:00:45:00 takes its temporal duration from the length of time it took ‘Little Boy’ to explode over the city from its release from the ‘Enola Gay’.

MMVI symbolically deconstructs the authority of television as a medium, by literally deconstructing the sanctity of the TV set itself as an object – to be represented as an icon, broken of its authority and rebuilt out of its own parts. This is a clip of a multi-channel work, in which 4 monitors are used to deconstruct the turning off sequence of an individual monitor.  The sequence slows progressively, stretching the length of the off sequence from its half second duration, toward a virtual stasis.

BA Hons Fine Art  - 2005

MSc Electronic  Imaging - 2007

Short-listed for the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Award  2008.

Selected Exhibitions

Further Tales From Everywhere, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24/5/11

Time Pieces, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, 2/3/11-2/4/11

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Trongate 103, 16/4/10-03/5/10

MADATAC, Academica de Cine, Cervantes Institute, Madrid, Spain, 10-12 December  2009

Streaming Festival, online from 20 to 30 November 2009  at www.streamingfestival.com

Visual Deflections, Old Truman Brewery, Corbet Place, Shoreditch, London, 29/8/09

Cibercepcion Video Art Festival, Miercoles, Sucre, Bolivia, 12/8/09-15/8/09

Transfixed Motion/The Transitory Still, Sheffield Institute of Art and Design Gallery, 3/4/09-18/4/09

Transmediale09, Festival for Video Art and Culture, House of World Cultures, Berlin 26/1/09-1/2/09
 

Supermarket 2009, Clarion Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden, 13/2/09-15/2/09

Echo, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 30/1/09-7/2/09

Magmart, International VideoArt Festival, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples Oct08-March09

Outcasting, Season 6, www.outcasting.org/, 1 Feb-31March

Optica Review, International Video Art Festival, Cervantes Institute, Paris, 20-29 October 2008

23rd CINEMA JOVE
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Valencia, 21 to 28 June 2008

5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, 25-30 March 2008

The Elements, Transfera, Spanish television network 'La Central Digital', 21/3/08
 

Les Inattendus, Beijing, China, Feb 24-27 2008

Optica, Gijon Festival of Video Art, Spain, 16-18 Nov07

Flash Flood - International Video Art Festival - Aug 4 '07
The Museum of Polydimensional Research, Gallery Centella
Tuscon, Arizona,USA
 

Mercy's 'Demolition' exhibition 27 June - 22 July at the Site Gallery, the Albert Dock, Liverpool

War and Peace07, Bath International Film Festival, November 2007

Solo Exhibitions

TV as a Creative Medium

Sony Centre, Great Western Road, Glasgow, 10-17/1/2008

Currys.digital, Argylle Street, Glasgow, 14-21/3/2008

Shop@Panasonic, Byres Road, Glasgow, 5-12/6/2008
 

 

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MMVI (4 channel clip)

MMVI clip