I recently shared a conversation with archaeologist, writer and artist Mark Edmonds. He came to my studio at the weekend to talk about his new book “Making a Handaxe”, bringing with him an object of contemplation and conversation: an exquisitely shaped...
ICE AND WATER In early September, unprecedented rainfall left a third of Pakistan under water. The video clips of huge surges of brown water sweeping away bridges, houses and livelihoods demonstrated, again, that the climate emergency is happening right now and its...
I’ve been listening to BBC Radio Three ‘Night Tracks’ a lot while drawing recently. Yesterday on the programme I heard the replay of a live performance from a recent all-night live concert. It was a piece I know well from a recording I have on CD, by the composer...
During a residency at Timespan in Helmsdale between January and March 2015, I developed a body of work that embraced the darkness of the Northern winter. At the time, I wrote: “Dark matters. Winter at 58º North is a good time and place to think about this, about what...
In 2014 I received Scottish Arts Council Funding to make new work in response to Edinburgh University’s Natural History Collections. I wrote a blog, and took lots of photographs, and the final outcome was a photo-essay “The Curators’ Room” published at Terrain.org....
Photograph series, 84.1 x 118.9cm, 2008. This series of photoworks was commissioned by Perth Visual Arts Forum and installed as large format prints looking out from windows and bus stops around Dunkeld. ALL...
