artist looks out to sea from the island

‘…We know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it’…

(Okjökull glacier plaque - letter to the future community in the world, by writer Andri Snaer Magnason, Iceland, 2021)

 

I am an artist, educator, and researcher with a practice-based PhD from the Glasgow School of Art Innovation School, funded by the Highlands and Islands Creative Enterprise. My research addresses an urgent call for new approaches that re-configure our relationship with the Anthropocene, considering the current speed of environmental and global change. It explores this from an island edge context through the development of engagement frameworks that articulate three viewpoints - the local, relational, and geological scales and ‘trickle-up’ action for change. I collaborate with local experts, artists, scientists, and communities. I work with a mix of time-lapse and real-time video, 360 VR, audio field recordings, performance events with measuring and mapping tools and objects. Recent collaborations have been with - Creative Carbon Scotland, Nature Scotland, Icelandic Glaciological Society, British Science Association, Antarctica Heritage Trust, North Isles Landscape Partnership, and Papay Development Trust. I have exhibited nationally and internationally in places such as Science Gallery Dublin, Pier Arts, Orkney, The Lab, International center for art and design Shanghai, Montreal New Media Festival, Transmediale - Berlin, Exit Art and Location One gallery - New York.