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I studied Fine Art at Edinburgh University and the Royal College of Art. My light sculpture was included in Northern Lights, a group exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in 1997, which had, as its centre piece, an installation by James Turrell. The warehouse where I later worked on light pieces was demolished a few years later, but this made me think about the study of colour and light in different disciplines. I was struck by some photographs of displays of natural phenomena in the skies, as captured in atmospheric and astronomical photography. I noted that many of these photographs were taken in the European Arctic. I applied for a residency in northern Finland, and took a film camera with me. The film I made there focussed on the sky and its relation to the surface of the earth, and was made by experimenting with film cameras placed on celestial mounts. This lead to making short films about the movement of light across the sky and landscape, with one 16mm film distributed internationally by LUX in 2007. A decade later, I was awarded an Artist International Development Award by Arts Council England to make a short film of the terrain in North Western Russia where Mikhail Prishvin’s traveled and wrote about in 1907, and commission a translation of the author’s descriptions of it in Za vol’shebnym kolobkom. The first exhibition of the film was accompanied by a reading of the text by actors Evgeny Goman and Xenia Mari in the Murmansk House of the Actor (Union of Theatre Figures), STR |
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Awards Artist International Development Fund 2017 Arts Council England and the British Council London Artist Film and Video Award 2005 Arts Council England with the support of Film London Royal College of Art - Kyoto Geidai Exchange 1994 John Kinross Award 1991
Short listed Wellcome Trust Sciart Research Award 2001:
Collections Edinburgh University Collections
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Links
London Film Festival Experimenta program
Rotterdam International Film Festival
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