Calcium
2023
Calcium is a project which featured as part of Sodium Ink., a student collective exhibition held along Portobello Beach Promenade, Edinburgh, in late March 2023. The exhibition was made in conjuction with Art Walk Projects and Edinburgh College of Art.
The work consists of 7 salt prints created using salt obtained from the waters of Black Ness Bay, Portobello, Scotland. Limited edition prints and bottles of Portobello Sea Salt were provided to attendees of the exhibition launch.
Calcium was situated next to Joppa Bandstand, overlooking the archaeological site of Joppa Salt Pans, tying in local history, ocean ecology and site into one work.
Prestongrange
2023 - 2024
Prestongrange is a series of works revolving around the historic site of Prestongrange Brick and Tile Works, located on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, East Lothian.
From the onset of the Industrial Revolution, works producing heavy ceramics, including bricks, pipes and tiles, flourished at Prestongrange, along with increased coal extraction. Prestongrange Brick and Tile Works closed in 1975.
The works in Prestongrange explore ideas of object value, fuction, industrial decline, through symbolic material choices and labour-intensive alternative photographic process.
From the onset of the Industrial Revolution, works producing heavy ceramics, including bricks, pipes and tiles, flourished at Prestongrange, along with increased coal extraction. Prestongrange Brick and Tile Works closed in 1975.
The works in Prestongrange explore ideas of object value, fuction, industrial decline, through symbolic material choices and labour-intensive alternative photographic process.
Unbrick
(2023)
Prestongrange (120mm)(2024)
Dreaming as a Brick on Morrison’s Haven(2024)
Volume over Four
(2025)
Objet d’art
(2023)
Foggy Lullabies (2024)
Pithead Baths (2024)
I am aware of damp souls (2024)
Hoffman Kiln (24 hours in blue)(2024)
Beehive Kilns(2025)
Unbrick
2023
Unbrick dissects the core components of ‘brick’, through a queering of materiality to create non-fuctional replicas, and examines the industrial decline in Scotland, particularly across Edinburgh and East Lothian.
Each found brick (and each agar replica) has been stamped, indicating it was made in brick works in the local area and all were collected from Morrison’s Haven - the former port of the defunct Prestongrange Brick and Tile Works.
Agar, used in petri dishes, is used in this work to collect bacteria, generating mould on the agar bricks. Viewers are invited to touch the replica bricks to feel their unexpected and recoil-inducing texture, accelerating the rate of mould production as each touch degrades the bricks.
Objet d’art
2023
Objet d’art explores the disparity between art and worth through a minimalistic presentation of bricks made in and around Edinburgh at the height of the local brick industry.
Although a basic structural form and often overlooked, bricks are integral to any sedentary society. Objet d’art seeks to place these essential creations on a pedestal at the same level as art.
I am aware of damp souls (Prestongrange bricks)
2024
I am aware of damp souls (Prestongrange bricks) is a series of photographs which seek to highlight the beauty, variation and personality of bricks found along Morrison’s Haven, East Lothian.
The title, taken from T.S. Eliot’s 1914 poem, Morning at the Window, alludes to ideas of the passive viewer who is detached, especially in the gallery space, from the context and harsh reality of the brick industry.
Dreaming as a brick (on Morrison’s Haven)
2024
Dreaming as a brick is an installation comprising of 12 plaster bricks, each embossed with a word in place of the brick ‘frog’ or stamp which come together to form a haiku.
Using haiku conventions, the work imagines what a brick could dream of when sitting, discarded on the beach at Morrison’s Haven, East Lothian. Functioning as poetry, the bricks are rendered redunant of their original purpose, whilst also asking questions about the value we place in traditional art objects, or more conventionally highly-valued items.
Using haiku conventions, the work imagines what a brick could dream of when sitting, discarded on the beach at Morrison’s Haven, East Lothian. Functioning as poetry, the bricks are rendered redunant of their original purpose, whilst also asking questions about the value we place in traditional art objects, or more conventionally highly-valued items.
