WIP Commissions for NHS Lothians Royal Hospital for Children's and Young People

This is an ongoing project working closely with staff to make sensitive work for a Bereavement Space, viewing room and bedroom .

This image will be a floor to ceiling vinyl print, installed in the bedroom. The image is made using a large format camera creating a single 5x4 ‘one of a kind negative’, the quality of which will print to a very high standard for mural sized installations.

During careful consultation and offering staff a number of different options they chose this scene to be made into a floor to ceiling vinyl for the bereavement space which will have more images in the adjacent viewing room.

Environmental Art Commission - National Trust for Scotland

Working with Archeologists from The National Trust for Scotland, to explore and research the intanglible heritage of illicit whisky trading in Scotland which took place during the 1800's.

I visited a number of Still Sites in Torridon and Mar Ldoge and created three pieces of sculptural works in response to the brief.

I made a series of newspapers, each one references a Still Site. Ideas of archiving, research and news helped inform this piece of work, which invites the viewer to interact with the work. Participants were invited to browse the newspapers, to discover elemental details of each still site, the surroundings and the spirit of the place.

I made a photographic darkroom developer using whisky as part of the project, and used this to print a number of one off Black and White images of the Still Sites.

Newspaper Stand with newspapers from six different Still Sites

Photographic Developer made with water from the Still Sites, Whisky, ascorbic acid and effervescent.

Photographic-based artworks for the new Greenock Health and Care Centre, Inverclyde

Currently in the final stages of a commission for the new Greenock Health and Care Centre, Inverclye. This commission looks at a microcosmic view of Inverclyde, working with Artist Stephen Hurrel and a wider theme of Found, Fragmented and Lost, these photographic Lumens looks at water and water habitats from various geographic locations of Invercylde. The works will be installed in January 2021.

Direct Positive Lumen Print Process

Astley Ainslie - Photographic Residency 2018/2019

Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation residency, I spent time delivering photographic workshops on the hospital site, using analogue photographic tools to enable particpants to record and remember the hosptial site.

A temporary exhibition with activities was all set up for the wider community as part of Edinburgh's Doors Open Day.

Temporary Exhibition, Door Open Day 2019

East Lothian Community Hospital - Installation 2019

Tonic Arts and Round Table Projects, these permanent pieces are installed in the Palliative Care ward of East Lothians Community Hospital. This commission involved concept developemnt, research and patient participation which helped inform the final pieces of work

I worked on a research phase gathering evidence through staff and patient consultation, this really helped inform the work and give staff and patients agency in the project. The work was also underpinned by critical theory explore 'the ageing eye', and the effects that bright stimulating colours can have on helping people navigate liminal spaces. I created a sequence of large scale images using a series of long exposures in the camera to make striking colour images which help paitents navigate long, somtimes intimidating, hospital corrdiors.

Three images, from a series of eleven works installed at East Lothian Community Hospital

Bold colours help patients navigate long white corridors

Royal Edinburgh Hospital ' Significant Spaces' Residency

The Significant Spaces photography project was set up to document the Royal Edinburgh Hospital during the substantial re-building programme, after which many parts of the old hospital will disappear. The aim of the project was to work with REH patients and staff, allowing them to photograph ‘meaningful’ places in the Hospital and to capture spaces before they are lost forever.

A journal has been produced as part of the residency as well as this, an Exhibition will take place as part of Edinburghs Doors open day on 29th and 30th of September at The Glasshouses, Royal Edinburgh Hospital.

Abandoned Ward

Abandoned Ward

Sewing Room

Verandah Cafe

Bathroom on Hermitage Ward

Hermitage Ward

Laundry Room

Laundry Room

Recreational space

Installation image, from the REH Glasshouses temporary exhibition

Installation image, from the REH Glasshouses temporary exhibition

Installation image, from the REH Glasshouses temporary exhibition

The Travelling Darkroom Travels

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