SHADOW SHOW
This research project looked at ethnographical and archival still and moving images from the late 19th century and early 20th century. These images portray how the new photographic technology of the time was used to dis-place and control other cultures and peoples. Combined with public domain footage the ‘Shadow Show’ video holds up a mirror from the past to reflect on the present. The power control implicit in these early images is still with us.
Exhibitions: Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albequerque USA. Directors Lounge Film Festival, Germany. Empire exhibition Society of Scottish artists, Wall Projects, Montrose
SHADOW SHOW: VIDEO
ARCHIVE RESIDENCY
This use of photography as an early means of control and surveillance was highlighted in a Council Archives Residency in a moving collection of photographic conviction records from the mid 19th century.
CAUGHT BY A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
Caught by a trick of the light – an artists book inspired by archival photographic and conviction records 1855 -1897.
Artist in Residence – Perth & Kinross Council Archives
Solo exhibitions – Archived – Threshold Artspace, Perth Artist in the Archive – AK Bell Library, Perth