Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2026
29th May - 7th June
Within my work, I allow myself to play within an alter ego or alternative mind. I explore all corners of my obsessive thoughts, paranoias, and daydreams, whilst trying to dissect the world around me as it morphs between reality and fiction within my work. Attempting to understand the history of the landscape within which we inhabit, I also use certain motifs to probe philosophical questions about human nature to the viewer.
Inspired by the way history is taught and demonstrated through reenactment, wax figures, models, and miniatures, these imitations of reality create a bizarre caricature of the world. Like America’s Disneyfication, I look at Britain’s display of idealised heritage, which can often sanitise the truth.
This project centres on the Falkirk Triangle, which in the 90s/00s was considered one of, if not the most popular, hotspots in the world for UFO sightings, with around 300 sightings per year. I have grown up in this area my whole life and only recently dove down this rabbit hole within the realm of local extraterrestrials. This modern-day sci-fi folk tale has formed the basis and perimeter for the works on display and the narratives woven in between.
Paintings, Photographs, and sculptures all inhabit the space, creating a multidimensional exhibition somewhere between an archive and a discovered accumulation of artifice.
