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.
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.
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.
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
From Scotland With Love
Virginia Heath's BAFTA-nominated documentary evokes the spirit of 20th century Scotland
‘I See Faces’ - Popular Pareidolia and the Proliferation of Meaning
This chapter, a contribution to a book in the Routledge Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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.
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.
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.
Jamais fille chaste n’a lu de romans
This research explores the subversive potential of reading women, as errancy and transgression, in relation to sexuality and education is explored in work/s structured on the education of women and women as readers.