My practice is performance which also includes costume and prop/sculpture making. My future focus is to apply for a masters in research and to teach, so this year I have focused on presenting opportunities amongst workshops which will further my skills as a performance based/mixed media artist.

Supporting artist work

I have worked as a supporting artist for the last seven years for films and productions, the most recent being:

• 01/03/22 Batgirl: Supporting artist playing a citizen in New York in a Xmas market. Although the film was actually filmed on the streets of Glasgow.(Film was cancelled) But provided great experience on one of the largest sets I’ve worked on yet.
• 14/12/22-15/12/22 Good Omens 2: Supporting artist playing a street citizen on a set at the Pyramids film studio in Bathgate.

Group Performance.

28/4/23 ‘Schiltron’ @ Generator Projects.

I was involved in a group performance for a project ran by Pascal Miehe a student who was studying a masters in drawing. The performance examined what it is to be a community, and what can happen when you work together. The group consisted of twelve people. We each had to sew ourselves together to form a circle made from black t-shirts, then leave the circle one by one. I don’t often enjoy working as a group but felt that this was very successful.

MY performance.

‘Your Magesty’ 18/3/24 @ DJCAD (room 600)

A performance in front of a live audience in DJCAD directed by me,costumes and props made by me featuring myself as ‘Your magesty’ and Georgia Dunn as my side kick/royal advisor. Film was shot By Molly Smart and Lewis Cavinue. Alot of time was spent marking out where the audience would go and how we should capture the audiences reaction which was using the discreet Osmo camera.Overall,I felt that this was a sucessful performance,feedback was that it was ‘hilarious’ yet ‘terrifying’ which was esactly as I had intended the audience to feel.

Georgia Dunn:‘The wheel of despair’

17/4/24 Technical support for Georgia Dunn’s live performance of ‘The wheel of despair‘ @DJCAD I assisted with que cards, lighting and playing video’s which co-incided with the show.

Art Night Guide.

24/06/23 Art night guide @The Little Theatre Dundee for Tai Shani’s film: ‘My bodily remains, your bodily remains and all the bodily remains that ever were and ever will be‘

Duties Included:

• Listening to instructions from the stage manager via head set in regards to the lighting being brought back on and dimmed for the perormance.
• Crowd control,telling the audience when the next filming would be and showing them to refreshments if needed.
• Head count of the audience.
• Communicating with the head of art night in regards to any issues or help needed.

Exhibitions.

Old contemporaries (22/09/24-23/09/23) Exhibited a series of performative long exposures photo’s taken from a project I was working on last year.

Generator Projects (17/02/24-1/03/24) Exhibited a series of photo’s taken from live performance work taken at Balmerino beach.

Publications

Exoskeletons (published 15/3/23)Very first publication in the student led book ‘Exoskeletons’,this was the first book published and I made it to the first page!

Further Publication

I have also been asked by Dr Helen Gorill who is an artist,curator,art historian and published author aswell as lecturer at DJCAD if I would like to either submit an extract from my disertation or write an insert for her up and coming book about witchcraft. (Title still undecided)

Workshops

Alastair Maclennan performance workshop. (02/02/23) @DJCAD

I Learnt a lot of techniques during this workshop but most importantly that performance is more then just technique and comes from the inner self and how through breath,intent and ‘being’ your practice can evolve to so much more then you can possibly imagine.

Richard Layzell performance workshop. 25/3/2024 @DJCAD

Richard taught in a completely different way then Alastair,much more realistic based and felt less meditative and more like being in an acting workshop.I was feeling really nervous about my upcoming performance and Richard spent some time looking at my costume and speaking to me about my fears and how I wished my character to be portrayed.By the end of the workshop we were all asked to perform to the public and I felt that this really helped my confidence improve,something which Richard reckonised aswell.He also gave advice on my costume and my upcoming performance.

Luke Fowler Sound workshop. (01/03/24) @DJCAD

I wouldn’t normally choose to attend something like this but decided to push myself out of my comfort zone as this could potentially give me a new skill set of which i could use alongside with my performance.I found this workshop very interesting,particulary when we got to use contact mic’s and getting to pick up on every day sounds that we wouldn’t normally pay attention to and creating our own sounds using every day items,it really did prove that anything is possible in reagards to sound.I hope in the future use contact mic’s in my work.

Pascal Miehe’s Experimental drawing workshop @The cooper gallery

I choose to do this workshop as it was a response to Heather Phillipson’s ‘Dream land’ and exhibition that I particulary enjoyed at the cooper gallery.I can’t say I took away anything new from this workshop but I loved how everybody drew and painted the sounds they could hear very differently and I felt that it was a great way to respond to an exhibiton.I also liked the fact it was open to children aswell as it was nice to see how they responded to the excercise compared to adults.

Khadea’s ‘Living cassette:Sonic Workshop.

I really enjoyed getting to listen to archival cassette footage and discussing and raising questions over what we could hear,also opening a random book and discussing the page we landed on.This is something I had never done before and made me realise how important alot of the discussions were that we were having and how often do people sit down face to face and have these discussions anymore instead of most discussions happening online?

PRESENTATIONS.

Presenting General foundation lectures with Dr Helen Gorrill and Carrie Holden (fellow classmate)(25/01/24-25/3/23)

Lectures given to 209 students,Every two weeks for three months.

• My research and development One week involved presenting my research and development of my work,talking over what i would like to of known in the early stages of art school and answering any student questions.
• The Venus lecture.I gave a presentation on the many figerines of Venus dating back to the neo-lithic period and what is and isn’t know about them.How the venus figure had been sensored from facebook and how the modern day female form had been too.And how pole dance businesses had been effected by this.Students seemed to be really engaged with this topic.
• Reading of ‘Women in the picture ‘ by Catherine McCormack Read different chapters discussing different topics and engaged with student conversation regarding the topic and answered questions.

Rising Stars Conference Carnelly Lecture theatre 29/3/24 2-5pm

• Pecha Kucha style talk (6 minutes in total 20 seconds perslide)
• Presented infront of 50 people combination of third and fourth years and some PHD students.
• Discussed what my research was about
• Discussed how the findings in my research lay the groundwork for my practical work
• Talked about the importance of research

My dissertation will now be published in ‘Rising stars 2024’ amongst the other students that took part in the lecture and thee books will be available to buy in galleries up and down the country.

Competition/exhibition applications.

I have applied for the landscape award (which i didn’t get into)

I have applied to the RSA open call which I didn’t get into.

Batsford award and New contempories.(still awaiting)

‘Branching out’ Exhibition @ Dundee Botanics (still awaiting)