2008

Exhibit "Our Tower" as completion of Parallel Lives 2 project in Dean Gallery Edinburgh and interprative exhibition in National Gallery ............ November -January

Video installation in Bough tent during Belladrum Festival   .... August

Video installation in Bough tent during Durness Games ..............July

Artist in residence in Out of the Blue Edinburgh with Parallel Lives 2 project with National Galleries ........ July

Video installation in National Gallery, Edinburgh celebrating the work of the Ark ‘The Last Minutes’  March

Video artist with Scarabeus in Sittingbourne Community College teaching airial skills .....February

2007

Design and curate travelling exhibition of Summer in the Straths for Sutherland village halls including Strathy and Lochinver

National Galleries/Streetwork/Ark collaberation with projections during the final Xmas dinner in the Ark .......December

National Galleries/ Highland Council exhibition - Maternity exhibit Merkinch mums videos and project films onto the outside of the gallery and on the doors as people enter .......December

Giant video projections on the cliffs around Durness for the Northern Lights (John Lennon) Festival.... October

Video installation Xiangtan, Hunan, China of video work with Shiela Stewart and Jess Smith .... September

Make short film with 1st year pupils of Farr Secondary about contemporary crofting ....September

Exhibit 2 video works at An Tuirrean  Portree   August

Video artist in residence with the Summer in the Strath travellers project, recording and co-ordinating the archiving of the journey and projecting a updated video of the journey on the ceilidh tent each evening       June

Ran a serious of video workshops in Thurso with a diverse group of mostly seniour citizens who made a video graffiti project which was projected to interact with a local large 1960s mural on a central gable in Thurso    April

A National Galleries of Scotland/ Perth & Kinross Council commission to create a video installation in Rattray Hall during a weekend of performance with the Travelling People of Perthshire        March

 

 

2006

Video projections at the National Theatre Studios London with Rediculusmus Theatre Company  November

Imagining the Centre - 1 day arts event commissioned by Inverness City Partnership looking at Inverness city. I project 4 large video images "To The Power Of" - giant wind turbines in the narrow city centre streets  September

Street + Gallery: A National Galleries of Scotland Education Project, in Partnership with the Ark Trust, Edinburgh. Artist in Residence for 2 weeks in the Ark, New Street, Edinburgh working with the homeless and those in threat of homelessness in and around the streets of Edinburgh City Centre.             August

VROOOM Curate a digital exhibition in Durness Village Hall for the Mackay Country Project running for one week.         June

 

Invited artist to contribute to In Situ book "European Artists on the Road" launched Antwerp.   March

 

Video artist with Scarabeus working in Keys Meadow Primary School, East London.  R & D for new show. March

 

Video artist with Scarabeus working for one week in Norwich with teenagers and with a group of mums and daughters running arial and dance workshops and in trusting the video camera.    February

2005

 

2 week residency in Durness, Sutherland, working in their digital studio. Make virtual landscapes of the area for their web site and work with the Primary school on a video projection of all the children which we used over the outside of their village hall before their Xmas show and party. December

Weekend video workshop with young people in An Tuerrean, Portree, Skye. November

Video project with all the children of Melvich Primary School, Sutherland on the bio-diversity of the sea. We make a video called "The Fish Says Goodbye" May -October

New Dynamics Highland Council Project in Thurso, video artist working with young people. Various workshops leads us to preparing video for projection onto important sites around Caithness. Midsummer night we project images of the local windmills onto the nuclear reactor at Dounreay and at the Autumn equinox we project Dounreay onto the windmills. Summer

Arts.S-Inc commisioned video artist in Farr Secondary School, Bettyhill, Sutherland working with upper secondary pupils. We make a film exploring the exam structure through the inventing of a new subject, the laungage of sheep -Baa. Summer Term

St Magnus Festival, Orkney. Commissioned to fill with video images, the performance space of 'Notes in Time of War', a show about the diaries of children from war zones around the world and performed by 110 children from Orkney primary schools. June

The Street Looks at the City: a video project commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, Edindurgh.  Working with the homeless in collaberation with the Ark drop in centre, we project large video portraits onto the outside of the National Gallery, Queen Street, Edinburgh.  February.

2004

New Media artist in Highland Council project New Dynamics in the SIP area of Merkinsh, Inverness.Make 'Line' with artists group Studi'03 and work with mums group 'Escape' on outdoor projections around Merkinsh including 'Stairs' and 'Changing FacesJune > November.

Window in the World: Video artist working with children in three schools on three different Orkney Islands, looking at their different journeys ot school.  Shown at CCA, Glasgow and on the various Islands  February > April.

Video artist with Wyrd Arts in  project looking at the ethical issues around genetic engineering.  Haydon Bridge High School, Northumberland   January

2003

Video project in Inverness with young mums group commissioned by National Galleries of Scotland  November.

Speed of life project commissioned by National Galleries of Scotland involving young people, skateboarders and rock musicians, projecting their images onto public buildings around Thurso and exhibited in Inverness City Gallery   August

Video documentation of a drugs awareness project with young people in Wick   commissioned by Northern Constabulary   January

2002

Video design, edit and projection collaboration with Morag Wightman with material recorded in the Zero Gravity research plane and performed at the Lillian Byres theatre, Sadlers Wells London.  March.

Landscapes of the Heart Large scale video projections with Scarabeus and Piano Circus in 3 week development and performance at Three Mills Island Studios.   May

Participant artist in Artsplay, Highland based pilot project working with young children.

Ran video workshops for 3 and 4 year old groups, making video exploring identity.  June

Work with Save the Children in a local Social Inclusion Project using video.

Also ran a series of inflatable sculpture workshops culminating in a small portable oasis of inflatable palm-trees for a housing estate bereft of any trees in Thurso.  July - August.

Video record and edit with young people from in and around Hexham, Northumberland for their theatre project "Pure", performed in the Queens Hall Hexham.  August

Landscapes of the Heart performance at the opening of the Lighthouse Arts Centre Poole Dorset.  October

Ongoing video projects in the SIP area of Thurso and a scheduled blowing up of the.oasis at the opening of the childrens' new play-park

 

2001

Video, projection research and development for Landscapes of the Heart, Three Mills Islands funded by Gulbenkian and Jarwood foundations.   November

3 week residency in Trinidad with Scarabeus Dance Company developing a  performace on the disused Satellite dish in Chigaramas National Park at the invitation of the British Council.   June.

 

2000

Commissioned artist in "Counting Sheep" touring exhibition

Windows 68 performed for 2 days at Big in Falkirk Festival

Participant artist in 2 V.R. workshops at the Motorhouse and Teeside Univ.

1999

Video projections and development of Scarabeus's "Arboreal" at Traquair Festival.

Windows'68 a very large inflatable installation of 3 tower blocks commissioned for Glasgow's Year of Architecture and BBC Live.

Video artist with Wyrd Arts Outreach project in Cumbrian schools, 5 months nominated for Northern Arts Award.

Video dance projections at the Workington Wind Turbine site with Borders TV.

Video artist with Glasgow's Amaze project working with children on identity.

 

1998

Commissioned to make experimental video of a large community parade in Glasgow.

1997

Start "Human Landscape" project planting 13000 trees and re-aligning a water course into a geometric form.

Development and performance with Scarabeus at the Circus Space, London, on their new show, "Arboreal" inspired by our work with trees.

1996

Commissioned artist in the "Rock Drill" exhibition based on the work of Epstien and Duchamp.

Invited video artist at the Motorhouse, Rounton with students from Univ. Hartfordshire. make the video "Middlehouse Mororbourgh".

 

1995

Participant artist, working with video, in the IMMS project in the Azores and subsequently exhibiting in Horta, Lisbon, Madrid and London.

 

1993

Create "Crochag Crannag" a large scale environmental art project, making an island as a tree sanctuary.

 

1992

Co-produce video "Crabbit" shown at Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival.

2 week residency Dumfries and Galloway schools with Scarabeus Dance Company recording workshops and developing "Fata Morgana" performance theatre.

 

1991

Co-direct artist residency "Margins" and record and edit video.

 

1982

Produce the community video "Between the Rocks and the Sea" shown at the Celtic.Film Festival, Brittany.

 

1978

Embark on long term rural skills development on both land and sea, gaining the tenancy of our croft.

 

1973

Re-locate to remote North Coast primarily for our childrens' education.

1970

1973

Fine Art Degree Leeds

1966

1969

Glasgow School of Art