About
I make 16mm films that observe on and record encounters between (often forgotten or overlooked) communities, broken or intangible narratives contained within historical objects or spaces, within personal biographies, diaristic writing and through queer notions of time, including investigations into different cognitive and sensory experiences.
In the past I worked with performance, publishing and event and exhibition-making.
My practice, developed around collaborative actions, grounded in the observational, is connected by ideas of enclosure, the quotidian, doubt, delay, unfinishedness, care, disappearance, blindness, collaging, the plural, blurriness, cameras as obstructions, lenses as objections, the diaristic and episodic, seeking to record the contingencies of different kinds of lived experience and thoughts.
From time to time I write about film and the moving image.
I give artists and filmmakers interested in working with 16mm film introductory workshops and consultation to a range of cameras, film stock, shooting and processing techniques, at times working as a DP. These have included artists and filmmakers Alia Syed (CCA show, May 2025), Mina Heydari-Waite (CS, 16mm R&D, 2025), Mhairi Killin, Iona shoot and Svalbard residency (2024), Conor Baird for a solo show at Glasgow Project Room in 2024, Khadea Santi (DJCAD, MFA 2024), Ayla Dmyterko (On Volya, 2023), Annie Crabtree (Haunting, 2022-), Shona Macnaughton (location shoot, 2022), Helen McCrorie (Eigg residency, 2022), Raya Gray (intro to 16mm, Canon Scoopic), Hannan Jones (Dear F…, GMAC, 2022 and Satellites, Collective, Edinburgh, 2024), Wendy Kirkup (rough cut botanical, 2022), Ailsa Lochhead (new work, 2021), Tako Taal (Jerwood Award, 2020), Alex Millar, Lin Li, Maria Oliver Smith, Emilia Beatriz (Margaret Tait Award, 2020), Stephanie Mann (Talbot Rice Gallery, 2020), Rachel McBrinn (Rhubaba Gallery research production award, 2021), Rosie Roberts (Masters’ film, GSA, 2019), George Finlay Ramsay (Castorocene, Rupert, Lithuania, 2021, preliminary work for a new film, Rupert, Lithuania, 2021 and Family Fugue, 2022), Calum Craik and Guy Baillie-Grohman among others.
The site was developed in collaboration with artist Alex Tobin. http://tobinalex.com