ASUNDER
ASUNDER tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men abroad fighting and its women and children left behind.
Northern Light: Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography
This body of work investigating photography in the Northern Landscape consists of two book chapters, two book editorials, and two exhibition co-curations.
We Are All Migrants
The research enquiry sought to explore and illuminate issues of migration in 20th century Europe in relation to questions of culture and identity.
From Scotland With Love
Virginia Heath's BAFTA-nominated documentary evokes the spirit of 20th century Scotland
Ymedaca
Ymedaca was a multi-modal art work that created the largest sculpture ever exhibited at YSP by recasting its entire grounds and facilities as a contemporary translation of Plato’s garden academy
The Natural Forms I II III
This solo exhibition, realised in three evolving, discrete iterations, addresses questions of role attribution, gender construction, and economic exchange (value forms, after Marx).
Lift Share
The work is an enquiry into whether two strangers suffering past family trauma – a Romanian woman in search of a child that was forcibly taken from her and a Scottish musician confronting the death of his abusive father – can discover a shared empathy to help heal their pain.
‘I See Faces’ - Popular Pareidolia and the Proliferation of Meaning
This chapter, a contribution to a book in the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series, presents findings from an inquiry into the human propensity for making meaning with and from ordinary things and materials.
Hiding in Plain Sight
‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ explores the relationship between staff, space, institution and the visibility of care work, in the disintegrating UK healthcare system.
Gender and Design
This body of work investigates how design research informed by feminist theory and philosophy can facilitate future design ontologies conceived beyond normative patriarchal and capitalist value constructs.