White flowers against shadow, to test the highs and lows, and film at the Museum of Scotland with a view to filming delicate things in very low light, and a few things, like marble white busts, sewing on cotton and chandelier parts, in very bright light.

Black and white, 16mm film, silent, 16fps, 2018. Filmed on location at the Tontine Building, GSA, September 2018. Thanks to Bea Haut, Film in Process. Thanks {…}

Karen Cunningham, Poly, Saturday 25 – Tuesday 28 August 2018.   ‘Material Economics’ 2m x 2.22m Guada Bamboo Split Moso Bamboo Clear Acrylic Steel Rope {…}

settings, Lauren Printy Currie, four-channel audio, 2017, Saturday 25 – Tuesday 28 November 2017   I now get to see to see how the summer {…}

Jonathan Owen • Karen Cunningham • Jane Topping

…. fall from the simple edge.

Featured image stills from 17 March 2018, TYVM residency, ‘You do, do you?’ at The Modern Institute, Glasgow. Studio shoot stills, 27 March 2018, Glasgow {…}

  Chris Marker said that memory, remembering and forgetting and its acts of recollections and vanishings, are intertwined: ‘I will have spent my life trying {…}

THIS IS IT – UNIVERSE, video installation by moving image artist Helen McCrorie, October 7-10 2017.   There is an anomalous light feature here in {…}

(fabrics from Murder on the Orient Express, 1974)

  16mm film; 35mm stills.

Review for This is Tomorrow, June 29 2018. With thanks to Wendy Kirkup. Still: WORDS, PLANETS, Laida Lertxundi, 2018, courtesy of the artist and LUX, London {…}

An inclined circle is ill suited to marking time efficiently. Conversely, the circular tyranny of around clock face is anathema to the plotting of contemplative {…}

Anonymiser Particular, Richard Taylor, 22-24 September 2017, performance and audio and slide installation with Glasgow-based visual artist Richard Taylor       My reading starts {…}

“This text reflects on a conversation with the artist in his studio with its itinerant assembly of materials and ideas. The text attempts, through encounters {…}

austerity is my first disease, 16mm colour film, 2018

Review for ‘This is Tomorrow’, first published 27 February 2018   American Glasgow-based artist Margaret Salmon’s filmic, atmospheric, and carefully rendered installation, sensitive to the {…}

Saturday 9 December – Tuesday 12 December 2017 Image courtesy of Catherine Street, watercolour on paper, 2017   I am beginning to think of the {…}

The project ENTHUSIASM with Edinburgh-based artist Andrew Gannon is the first in a series of proposed exhibitions set in the rooms of my new flat {…}

FRACTO is an annual Experimental Film Encounter which will be held at ACUD Cinema & Studio Berlin.