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The Future of Hindsight (for Christine and Frieda)
No full textThe Future of Hindsight (for Christine and Frieda)
Collaborative audio sketches with artist and PHD Student at Glasgow university Jennifer Wicks for the exhibition Mother Curator.
6 Sketches cut from a live recording using reel to reel, minidisc, guitar, bass, mics and effects.
Sketch1 8 min 48
Sketch 2 2min 06
Sketch 3 2min 12
Sketch 4 1min 09
Sketch 5 4min 48
Sketch 6 10 min 32
Inspired by the recordings of women who dedicated years to local community and action the work explores shared threads that offer alternative modes of memory, authorship, and transmission, valuing the tactile, the collective, the imperfect, and resistant practice. The project and collaboration has grown from Bex’s research into the Woman in Communism interview series recorded by Neil Rafeek, held at the National Library of Scotland’s Sound Archive. Ideas of hindsight and time and central to the work and the constant rearranging of sound and feedback are used to experiment with ideas of archival permanence and truth.
Looping and feedback are methods which continually reshapes and recontextualises the material, allowing voices and sounds to evolve over time, generating new associations and temporal layers. Looping becomes a mechanism for transforming memory into material experience, disrupting the fixed temporality of aural archiving. Archiving is considered as conversation, as scattering, as finding a collective voice through scrapbooking, effecting found and scavenged materials, repurposing, sharing, re-editing, resharing, and revoicing each other’s words. Who gets to speak whose words and how do collective histories circulate through sound and material practice
"Hands in the Air" by The Gorgeous Pouting Mr AR
No full textVideo for the second single from the album 'The Beyond and the Better Way.'
The video concept was developed by Ronan Breslin and direction was by Jacob Topen. Jacob Topen also edited the video. The Hands in the Air video riffs on the visuals from the iconic music video for Sinead O'Connor's worldwide hit "Nothing Compares to U"
Talking About Writing: Art Writing as an Interdisciplinary Field
No full textPublished as part of the proceedings for What is Creative Criticism? A Colloquium, 20 June 2024, University College, Oxford.
The colloquium asked: are the categories of creative and critical, personal and impersonal, fictional and non-fictional only and inevitably experienced by writers as an imposition? If work of this kind aims in part to treat the practical circumstances of writing as conditions for its perennial reinvention, then might these organisational categories also provide opportunities for writerly practice
Land in the Balance
Full text linkReview 'A Fragile Correspondence' which was the exhibition chosen to represent Scotland at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. It is now showing at the V&A Design Museum in Dundee ( November - February 2025)
Untitled (rust)
No full textThis work formed part of the 'Practicing Landscape: Field Notes' exhibition in the Annex Gallery, Stow Building (GSA). It was initiated by curator James N. Hutchinson who invited the Reading Landscape research group to respond to the idea of site both inside the gallery and beyond it.
My initial response was to make ink using rust harvested from the railings that demarcate the land occupied by Stow Building. The ink was then used to make a photo etching which depicts the heavily corroded railing which I called 'Untitled (rust)'. The image is representational but is quite abstract in appearance.
My interest is in the idea of borders or boundaries being eroded and their material form slowly returning to the earth. My exploration of ink is a continuation of ongoing research exploring materials, their physical qualities, material agency and symbolic meaning in the artwork
'La Mise-en-scène de la Masculinité dans La Trilogie Pusher'
Full text linkThis is the French translation of my essay (https://radar.gsa.ac.uk/9857) included in the recently released French DVD/Blu-ray 4K box set of Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher trilogy
ebbtidefloodtide
No full text'ebbtidefloodtide' is a 7min long digital experimental film. It was made in response to the landscape the film is set within, a derelict outdoor swimming pool at Pittenweem – a structure gradually being eroded and absorbed by the rising sea. In ebbtidefloodtide I aim to depict the alien power and beauty of the natural world, and the pathos of human attempts to control it. Inspired by Timothy Morton’s book ‘Dark Ecology’, the film is one of 4 experimental film works that investigate the concept of ecogneocis.
'ebbtidefloodtide' was exhibited as part of the Scottish Landscape awards 2025 Kirkcudbright Galleries, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway 5 July to 28 September 2025 the film also reached a wider audience online. A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition
Empire Retold: Lesson Plans
Full text linkThis resource comprises lesson plans for schools related to research entitled "Decolonising the British Empire Exhibition of 1938 through Augmented Reality Narratives".
The lesson plans and supporting materials are as follows:
1) An interactive 3D model of the entire Empire Exhibition, with guided tours focussed on:
a)Scottish Identity;
b)Colonialism;
c)Hidden Histories;
d)Contemporary debates on Empire;
e)Energy and Industry.
This is a downloadable .exe which will run using the Unity game engine.
2) A prompt booklet to use with Lesson Plans 3 - 6
3)Scottish identity lesson plan
4)Tower of Empire lesson plan and resource sheet
5) Creative Writing lesson plan and resource sheet
6) Industry in 1938 lesson plan and resource sheet
7) A STEM context planner focussed on renewable energy incorporates STEM activities into this resource. This resource is available for educators and STEM Ambassadors to utilise.
"Renewable energy in the last 100 years" prompt booklet
8) A prompt booklet to use with the renewable energy context planner
9) A document on expanding learning using other aspects of the Empire Exhibition digital materials
High streets, ageing and well-being
Full text linkDespite their perceived decline, local high streets in the UK remain valuable central and well-connected places that can foster ageing in place, yet their potential to sustain well-being in old age has been overlooked. Using qualitative methods, the paper explores what features of local high streets support older people’s well-being in three local town centres in Edinburgh, Scotland. The findings show there are three main domains of local high streets’ public realm that enable older adults’ well-being, namely the streetscape, the spatial organization and accessibility of amenities and services, and the provision of housing that can foster town centre living
Creating My Care Record: A participatory approach to digital care records for children and young people in Scotland
No full textScotland’s Independent Care Review (ICR) identified a need for innovative digital tools which can support how care experienced children and young people communicate, and give them greater ownership and control over their care records (1). Currently, care records may not always take a person-centred approach and viewing this can be traumatising to the individual (2) and does not capture a full and accurate account of their lives. Funded by the STV Children’s Appeal and the Corra Foundation, Scotland’s Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) has partnered with statutory organisation Who Cares? Scotland (WC?S) and the Aberdeen City Council (ACC) to co-create new ideas for care records for young people.
Given the previous extensive consultation undertaken by the ICR with 5,500 care experienced individuals and those that support them, the project team decided to take a targeted approach to participation, overseen by an advisory group of expert professional stakeholders. Our research is design-led and trauma-informed, working with our advisory group to make sure that care-experienced participants are included in ways which are both supportive and empowering. We began with scoping interviews professionals to understand the context from their perspective. Next, we worked in partnership with WC?S to carry out three in-depth two-part interviews with care-experienced young people to map out the people, organisations and information that are important to them, and understand their experiences and views about information sharing and care records. At the same time, we carried out two focus groups with multidisciplinary professionals to learn more about how they use care records to support young people.
Using thematic analysis, we identified three overarching ways care records can support young people: reviewing information on their past, planning for the future, and sharing information with professionals about themselves. From this, we developed concepts for a timeline with varying levels of granularity, self-curated “story arcs”, shared action lists, and an “About Me” profile. Working with ACC, we learned about the current infrastructure for recordkeeping and developed a technical model illustrating how a view focused on young people could be delivered in future.
We then validated low-fidelity prototypes of our ideas through follow-up interviews with our previous participants, and in two focus groups with care-experienced people 16 years and up. Their feedback showed that this type of model could be used to better support young people in care in the future. Next, we will continue working with ACC to develop a minimum viable product version of the service.
The findings and prototypes offer insights for the integrated care community about how care records can better meet the needs of care-experienced people by focusing on personal reflection without re-traumatisation, and promoting future achievement through respectful cooperation with professionals. Our innovative approach also offers insights into how to creatively engage young people in co-creating trauma-informed digital tools to integrate care.
(1) Independent Care Review. The Promise.; 2020. doi:10.1037/034322
(2) Who Cares? Scotland. Our Lives, Our Stories, Our Records: A Records Access Campaign.; 2019