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Kyra Clegg

fife
My practice includes video, sculpture, mixed media installations and collage with reference to the landforms and habitats of Scotland

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.  Using video and mixed media installations I follow ‘a path of observation’ looking for interactions and relationships that connect with our placement but also our dis-placement in the world around us. I enjoy the process of fragmentation in the assemblage and collage of materials often reconstructing natural materials from landscape walks which add a back story to any project and also introduce a sense of dialogue with the work in progress.

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 – 2020
Other Voices multimedia exhibition reflecting on the reality of living in a world entangled in strands of oceans past, present and future.
Gallery one Kirkcaldy Art Gallery Kirkcaldy

2010
Artist in the Archive a series multimedia installations and interventions from a research residency at Perth and Kinross Council Archives.
AK Bell Library Perth
Artists talk A KBell Library theatre
Threshold Artspace Horsecross Concert Hall Perth
Perth theatre Threshold Artspace

2008
Hides and Habitats mixed media installations on the theme of place and habitation.
Bonhoga Gallery Shetland
University of Leicester Richard Attenborough Centre Leicester

2004
Cabinets for Emily a series of mixed media boxed assemblages inspired by the poems and life of Emily Dickinson.
Exhibition and artists talk Stanza International Poetry Festival St Andrews
Byre Theatre St Andrews

2003
Fired by Fairytales sculpture and mixed media installation inspired by the landscape of fairytales exhibition in an old beehive brick kiln
Errol Brickworks Errol Perthshire

2002
Earthed landscape installation project about an old industrial claypit – now a site of scientific interest.
Crawford Arts Centre St Andrews

 

JOINT EXHIBITIONS /PROJECTS

2024
Forest Reliquary installation connecting with forest landscapes. Part of the Heartwood Artists ‘Transitional Space’ exhibition.
Birnam Arts Dunkeld

2019-2020
Confluence of North Project an artists’ exchange and exhibition project between Japan and Scotland
Creative Exchange Perth An Lanntair Stornaway Isle of Lewis Kitakata Fukishima Nishiazu International Art Village

2018
Sea Views multimedia exhibition with Marysia Lachowicz
Rothes Halls Glenrothes

2017
The Land of the Living video project looking at Landscape Black Tent Video
Exhibition of videos and installations at
Fire Station Creative Dunfermline.
Forest is — Black Tent Video
Linked 5 screen installation in the exhibition On The Ground
Perth Museum and Art Gallery Perth
Heartwood at Hopetoun multimedia exhibition responding to a stately home Heartwood Artists
Hopetoun House Edinburgh

2016
Nothing to Declare commissioned film project on borders with poet Kathleen Jamie
Mansio project Hexham Book Festival

2015
Lochmill in Two Weathers film project with poet Kathleen Jamie celebrating a land community buyout.
Online Bella Caledonia
The Royal Geographic Society HQ Black tent Video
Perth Festival. Selection of videos and images
‘In Land’ video installation Black Tent Video
Gracefield Art Centre Dumfries.
Preserved between the Image and the word poetry and visual art responding to a natural history museum with artists Elaine Allison, Pat Bray and poet, Anna Crowe
Stanza International Poetry Festival St Andrews
Bell Pettigrew Museum St Andrews
Preservation Trust Museum St Andrews
Cusp exhibition Heartwood Artists
Macroberts Centre Stirling

2014
Out of Bounds artists studio project mixed media exhibition with Judith MacLachlan, Caroline Dear, Julia Bond
Artist’s Studios Isle of Skye
Dartmouth Arts Centre Dartmouth

2013
Afterlife of Gardens an installation by Liina Siib using footage from the collaborative film project Opposing Eden
Kumu Art Museum Tallinn Estonia

2012
Heartwood at Cambo site specific installation at Cambo stables Heartwood Artists
Cambo House Fife

2012 – 2016
Black Tent Video collaborative video project with Su Grierson

2009 – 2011
Site Specific interventions in woodland Heartwood Artists
Blaigowrie Scotland

2008
Opposing Eden experimental film project in Estonia and Scotland with Su Grierson Liina Siib Laura Kusk
Inside Out paintings and mixed media installations with Judith MacLachlan
Eden Court Theatre Inverness
Timespan Gallery Helmsdale

2004
Sea Liminal paintings and mixed media installations with Judith Maclachlan
Camuslusta Gallery Isle of Skye

2000
Claylines site specific installation with Jane Kelly.
Year of the Artist Errol Brickworks Perthshire
Sea Canto multimedia exhibition with artist Jane Kelly and musician, Paul Keatley
Bonhoga Gallery Shetland

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/FILM FESTIVALS

2023 – 2024
The New Geologic Epoch International project presenting work that relates to geological transformations in the land video – online exhibition and printed book
Ecoartspace Sante Fe New Mexico

2020-2022
Unmute wall hanging
SSA exhibition
Dunoon Burgh Hall Dunoon
A Sea Pastoral video 
Stanza International Poetry Festival
Ghosts  video 
13th Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinemas Film Festival Marseille France
REELpoetry International Film Festival Houston Texas USA
Moon-Drift video collaboration with Tricia Anderson 
Summerhall Cinema, Edinburgh

2019
Seven Seas video 
REELpoetry Film Festival Houston Texas USA

2017
Shadow Show video Inspired by still and moving images from the late 19th century
Experiments in Cinema Film Festival Albuquerque USA
Directors Lounge Contemporary Art Ruhr Germany

2016
Lines of Flight video installation looking at he boundaries of flight
SSA exhibition Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Permanent collection of University of St Andrews Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews
There’s no place like…. 5 screen video installation Black Tent Video
Alchemy Film festival Hawick

2015
SSA exhibition sculpture
Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Empire SSA exhibition video installation
Wall Projects Montrose
Forest is — Video installation Black Tent Video
SSA exhibition Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Deep Beneath Within video Black Tent Video
Traverse Film Festival Toulouse France.

2014
SSA exhibition sculpture
Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Fields video Black Tent Video
Fife Film festival
RSA open exhibition
Deep Beneath Within video installation Black Tent Video
SSA exhibition Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh.
Alchemy Film festival Hawick

2013
SSA exhibition print
Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Library of Lost Books Artists Book exhibition
Bootham Art Gallery York
University of Wolverhampton
Birmingham Library

2012
Interactions group exhibition
Inchmore Gallery Inverness
Four Plus group exhibition
Plockton Gallery Plockton

2011
Images of Eden video and installation
Cupar Arts Festival Cupar
The Ice Road video Eco Film Festival
Taigh Chearsabhag North Uist Outer Hebeides
Encounters with Time
Threshold Artspace Perth
Natural Connections PVAF members exhibition
Birnam Arts

2009 – 2010
10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition
touring USA South Korea
Remix PVAF touring exhibition
County House Bad Oldesloe Germany
Forms of Narrative PVAF members exhibition
Birnam Arts Dunkeld

2008
In Transit PVAF members exhibition
Birnam Arts Dunkeld

2007
A Visual Conversation
Qi Baishi International Cultural Festival Hunan China
Remix 100 travelling exhibition
Scotland China
Aberdeen Artists Society exhibition
Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen
Committed PVAF committee members exhibition
Birnam Arts Dunkeld

2006
Re-mix
Kaire-Desine Gallery Vilnius Lithuania
An Tuireann open
An Tuireann Art Centre Isle of Skye
Further Afield PVAF members exhibition
Birnam Arts Dunkeld
New Faces
Gallery Heinzel Aberdeen

2005
Aberdeen Artists Society exhibition
Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen
G8 Artists project responding to the 31st G8 summit in Scotland
Interactive DVD

2004
10×1
Bonhoga Gallery Shetland

2002
Art for Europe selected exhibition of Scottish artists
Scotland House Brussels

RESIDENCIES

2016
Centre d’Art I Natura with the poet Anna Crowe
Farrera Catalonia Spain

2015
SSW residency with Heartwood Artists
SSW Lumsden Scotland

2014
Cove Park with Black Tent Video
Peaton Hill Argyll and Bute
Outlandia London Fieldworks and Nevis partnership Glen Nevis with Black Tent Video
Glen Nevis Scotland

2011
Changing Ideas
Old Church House Pittenweem with Julia Bond 

2009 – 2010
Artist in the Archive Residency
Perth and Kinross Council Archives AK Bell library Perth

2000 – 2001
The Year of the Artist Residency
Errol Brickworks Perthshire

 

 

 

 

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