Approved: 16.08.2006

Kyra Clegg

Artist, Film-maker

Approved: 16.08.2006

I am a Scottish visual artist whose practice includes mixed media installations and artists moving image. My inspiration and research are embodied in the Scottish environment. Using connections with landscape, habitation and concepts of time and memory I explore how inner perceptions of the environment connect us to the external world.

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    Artist Statement

    I am a Scottish visual artist whose practice includes mixed media installations and artists moving image. My inspiration and research are embodied in the Scottish environment. Using connections with landscape, habitation and concepts of time and memory I explore how inner perceptions of the environment connect us to the external world.

     

    CV & Education

     2022

    'Unmute' Society of Scottish Artists exhibition - Dunoon Burgh Hall
    REELpoetry International Film Festival - Houston, TX, USA                                                 ‘Moon-Drift’  - SSA selected group film screened at Summerhall Cinema, Edinburgh and online

    2021
    'Ghosts' - video - 13 edition Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinemas - France
    'Confluence of North' - collaborative project - 4 Scottish artists and 4 Japanese artists - online and in venues in Japan and Scotland

    2020
    'A Sea Pastoral' - Stanza, Scotlands International Poetry Festival - St Andrews
    'Forest is' - video installation - Black Tent Video with Su Grierson - Threshold Artspace, Concert Hall, Perth
    'Other Voices' - continuing multi-media exhibition - Kirkcaldy Art Galleries
    'Lochmill in Two Weathers' collaborative film with poet Kathleen Jamie REELpoetry International Film Festival - Houston, TX, USA

    2019
    'Other Voices' - multi-media exhibition - Kirkcaldy Art Galleries
    'Seven Seas' REELpoetry International Film Festival - video - Houston, TX, USA

    2018
    'Sea Views' - joint exhibition with Marysia Lachowicz - Rothes Halls, Glenrothes
    'The Looking Pools' - funded research project with photgrapher Marysia Lachowicz

    2017
    Directors Lounge - Contemporary Art Ruhr - video - Essen, Germany
    Heartwood at Hopetoun - house and gallery installations - Heartwood Artists
    Perth Museum and Art Gallery - video installation - Black Tent Video
    Experiments in Cinema Film Festival - Albuquerque, USA - video

    2016
    SSA Open exhibition - video - Royal Academy, Edinburgh
    'Underground - Summerhall, Edinburgh - video installation - Black Tent Video
    Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline – video installation - Black Tent Video
    Alchemy Film Festival – video installation – Black Tent Video
    ‘Nothing to Declare’ – collaborative film with Kathleen Jamie – Mansio Project, Hexham Book Festival

    Residency - Centre d'Art i Natura, Farrera, Catalonia, Spain


    2015
    SSA Open exhibition – sculpture - Royal Academy, Edinburgh
    SSA Open exhibition - video - Royal Academy, Edinburgh – Black Tent Video
    ‘Preserved between the Image and the Word’ - StAnza International Poetry Festival, St Andrews
    ‘Inspired between the Image and the Word’ - Bell Pettigrew Museum, St Andrews University
    ‘In Land’ - Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries - Black Tent Video
    ‘Cusp’ - Heartwood Artists exhibition - Macroberts Centre, Stirling
    ‘Empire’ - SSA exhibition - Wall Projects, Montrose
    Royal Scottish Geographic Society exhibition - Perth Festival – Black Tent Video
    Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse, France – Black tent Video
    Fife Independent Film Expo – Lochgelly Arts Centre – Black Tent Video
    ‘Lochmill in Two Weathers’ – collaborative film with Kathleen Jamie – online - Bella Caledonia

    Residency - Outlandia London Fieldworks & Ben Nevis partnership - Black Tent Video


    2014
    SSA Open exhibition Royal Academy, Edinburgh
    RSA Open exhibition - Black Tent Video, Royal Academy, Edinburgh
    Shortlisted for the RSA Morton award - Black Tent Video
    Alchemy Film Festival – Black Tent Video, Hawick
    20:20 selected artist Bonhoga Anniversay Exhibition, Shetland
    Out of Bounds – Dartmouth Arts Centre

    Residency - Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden - Heartwood Artists group

    Residency – Cove Park - funded by visual art opportunities grant FCA&C


    2013
    The Afterlife of Gardens – collaborative video project – Liinna Siib, Laura Kuusk, Kyra Clegg, Su Grierson - Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
    SSA Open exhibition – Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    Library of Lost Books – Bessant Art Gallery, University of Wolverhampton & Birmingham Library
    Contained – artists’ studio collaboration, Isle of Skye – Caroline Dear, Judith Maclachlan, Julia Bond, Kyra Clegg


    2012
    Stanza International poetry Festival – videos, St Andrews
    Four Plus artist/organizer - Edinburgh
    Interactions - Inchmore Gallery – Inverness
    Heartwood 2012 – site specific installation at Cambo stables, Fife2011
    Cupar Arts festival – installation and video
    Heartwood 2011 – site-specific woodland installation, Blairgowrie
    Collection 111 Threshold Artspace – video - Perth concert Hall,
    Natural Connections – PVAF members exhibition – Birnam Arts Centre
    Uist Eco Film Festival – videos - Taigh Chearsabhagh and Sustainable Uist
    Encounters with Time – Threshold Artspace – Perth Theatre

    Residency – Changing Ideas, Old Church House, Pittenweem



    2010
    Fourplus – invited artist, East Wemyss
    Heartwood - site specific woodland project – Blaigowrie
    Artist in Residence – Perth & Kinross Council Archives
    Solo exhibition - Archived - Threshold Artspace, Perth
    Solo exhibition - Artist in the Archive - AK Bell Library, Perth
    10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, touring USA/South Korea
    PVAF members exhibition - Forms of Narrative – Birnam Arts Centre


    2009
    10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery
    Invited Speaker - illustrated talk on archival researches at the AK Bell Theatre
    Heartwood 2009– site specific woodland project - Blairgowrie
    REMIX Germany City of Bad Oldesloe County House
    Invited speaker – Artist Networking - Changing Room – Stirling

    Residency – Perth & Kinross Council Archives


    2008
    Solo exhibition - Hides & Habitats - Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
    Solo exhibition - Hides & Habitats - Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester
    Inside Out –Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
    Inside Out - Timespan gallery - Helmsdale
    Opposing Eden - collaborative, experimental film project in Estonia & Scotland
    In Transit – a Perthshire visual Arts exhibition
    Remix 100 –Perth Visual Art Forums exhibition – China


    2007
    A Visual Conversation - Qi Baishi International Cultural Festival - Hunan China
    Aberdeen Artists Annual Exhibition - Aberdeen Art Gallery
    Remix - Birnam Arts Centre
    Committed - Birnam Arts Centre
    Remix 100 – Perth Visual Art Forums exhibition – Scotland/China2006
    Re-mix Kaire-Desine Gallery Vilnius Lithuania
    Three Camuslusta Gallery, Skye- artworks and gallery installation
    An Tuireann Arts Centre, Skye
    Further Afield - Perth Rural Art Forum, Birnam Arts Centre
    New Faces - Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen


    2005
    Aberdeen Artists Annual Exhibition - Aberdeen Art Gallery
    Solo exhibition - Cabinets for Emily - Stanza International Poetry Festival, St Andrews
    Invited speaker - Stanza International Poetry Festival, St Andrews
    Invited artist - G8 artists interactive DVD


    2004
    Sea liminal - Camuslusta Gallery, Skye
    10x1 - Bonhoga gallery, Shetland
    Design - Stanza Poetry Festival brochure


    2003
    Solo exhibition - Make Believe, Errol Brickworks
    Design - Stanza Poetry Festival brochure


    2002
    Art for Europe - Scotland House, Brussels
    Solo exhibition - Earthed - Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews


    2000
    Claylines – site specific installation - Year of the Artist
    Scotland’s Year of the Artist Book – 2000
    Sea Canto - Bonhoga Gallery – Shetland

    Residency - Year of the Artist - Perth & Kinross