As part of Glasgow Open House Festival 2017, the space of a tenement bay window was converted for use as a Cinerama.
Showing How The West Was Won (1962), an epic MGM western film that charts the fates of the Prescot family as they move west across America.
The technology, Cinerama, was short lived. It was intended to give viewers an immersive experience. Here it is scaled down to fit the domestic setting.
The film ends with aerial footage of contemporary America, complete with traffic jams and heavy industry.
Exit.
Thrust Stage, a collaboration with Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, took place at WolfArt Project Space in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in September 2016.
Attendees were taken through a series of spaces.
The main section consisted of a dolly track and three repeated stage sets.
The work centred around the imagined reminiscences of Duncan McLachlan on the occasion of his retirement as a British Rail engineer.
The scenes, domestic and bland, each a had a short film playing on a loop.
The films were drawn from scenes of consumerist action, including the filming of an advert that took place in a fictitious supermarket.
Tomma Rum (Empty Space) poster, collaboration between Gillian Martin and Richard Martin.
Intellectual pride, part of a series titled Postcards from Ljusne, 2015. Made as part of the Tomma Rum residency in Ljusne, Sweden.
All the world’s a ping pong table, 2015. Image credit Tomma Rum.
All the world’s a ping pong table, 2015. Completed as part of an exhibition during the Tomma Rum residency in Ljusne, Sweden.
This is a version of the work Memorable eating, 2015, which is part of a group show- Museum For An Imagined City- at SOIL Gallery, Seattle USA
The work consists of a deck of cards carrying various captions, all of which have been sourced from the Official Guidebook of the Century 21 Seattle 1962 World’s Fair
The hope is that visitors to the gallery take the cards and so distribute them around the city
Titles include “AN ANIMATED MECHANICAL COW”, “THERE ARE NO TRAFFIC JAMS” and “HIS LEGACY MAY BE ONE OF HUMAN MISERY”
Clap your hands three times, 2013 Summerhall, Edinburgh
Clap your hands three times, 2013 Summerhall, Edinburgh
Clap your hands three times, 2013 Summerhall, Edinburgh
Clap your hands three times, 2013 Summerhall, Edinburgh
Mock-up, 2012 Sierra Metro Gallery, Edinburgh
Mock-up, 2012 Sierra Metro Gallery, Edinburgh. Opening night performance.
Mock-up, 2012 Sierra Metro Gallery, Edinburgh.
Grand national, part of Mock-up, 2012
One of your five-a-day, part of Mock-up, 2012
GAMES NIGHT! 2012, a collaborative effort at the Glue Factory, Glasgow
GAMES NIGHT! 2012, a collaborative effort at the Glue Factory, Glasgow
GAMES NIGHT! 2012, a collaborative effort at the Glue Factory, Glasgow
Amica o Nemica? part of GAMES NIGHT! at the Glue Factory, Glasgow 2012
imagery for GAMES NIGHT! 2012, the Glue Factory, Glasgow
THE LEARNING EXPERIMENT, 2013. A collaborative project at Platform Arts, Belfast
Come on down, it could be you. Installation as part of Procedure, Belfast 2011.
4 years to go… 2010, installation part of R.I.P at the Mutual, Glasgow
