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Catoptrica I
December 2011
A moving image laboratory in which live transformations were be applied to films of the four classical elements, using a variety of real-time rituals based on ancient alchemical experimental diagrams. A three day installation with a three hour audio-visual performance, first shown at Inspace, Edinburgh, Dec. 2011. View Project Page
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Diagram
October 2011
Filmed in Iceland, this work explores the idea of the fixed and the volatile within the filmic image as a diagrammatic space. Taking inspiration from alchemical illustrations and the transformative relationships of fire, air, earth and water to one another. View Project Page
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Mutus Floris
May 2011
Composed of over 5000 photographs of wild flowers, the film explores our perceptual relationship to natural things – flowers as objects of attention, the fixing of dynamic life in symbolic thought. Shown at Bump Gallery 26th and 27th August 2011 - download the invite here. Also shown at The Generator Shed, an experiment in extreme rural exhibiting, and at Montreal Underground Film Festival 2011. View Project Page
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Alchemist
May 2010
Moving image installation for Glasgow International and Alchemy Film Festival 2010. Dual screen projection with two large scale black mirrors, drawing on the transformative processes of Alchemy. Featuring landscape actions by performance artists Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Johnston. 30 minutes in duration as a single channel film, one hour as an installation piece. View Project Page
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Reflections, Inversions, Symmetries
February 2010
Mid-winter at Clashnessie in Sutherland. This work explores the relationship between the reality of the filmed landscape and its 'virtual' mirror image counterpart, though layerings of mirror images, inversions of colour and time, contained within the filmed image. A single screen work of 21 minutes duration. View Project Page
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Lament
March 2009
Single screen moving image installation, artist monograph and prints, created at various locations on the Anglo/Scots borderline. The monograph 'Lament' was published by Nowhere Arts in February 2009 and is available here. A DVD and a selection of printed stills are available from the artist's studio. Single channel projection 11 minutes in duration. View Project Page
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Green Man
September 2008
A conversation with the ancient archetype of the Green Man, a symbol and embodiment of a pre-christian engagement with the power of vegetative growth, and of our descent from and back toward living nature through life and death. So often, paradoxically, found carved from solid, grey, ungrowing stone in churches.The work consists of oak, hazel, beech, ash and maple leaves, on a foliate head. Single screen 4 mins 38s. View Project Page
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Fingal's Cave
June 2008
3 screen moving image installation created during numerous visits to Fingals Cave - a remote sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa off the West coast of Mull. Foksal Gallery / Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland 2008, and An Tobar, Isle of Mull 2011. 12 minutes as a single channel work, 6 minutes in installation format. View Project Page
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Evanescence
April 2007
Filmed at an ice lake at Vaavatnet in Norway, the work is in 5 individual 'movements' containing detailed visual meditations upon melting ice and ice beneath water. Originally developed for 4 synchronised screens wall mounted together in a horizontal line. Also available as a single channel film of 9 minutes. View Project Page
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A landscape symphony in 22 movements
October 2006
A twenty-two screen moving image installation for the Threshold Artspace in Perth. A 25 minute work based upon the site where J.E. Millais painted "The Sound of Many Waters." Shown in both single channel and multi-screen formats. View Project Page
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