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Mixed media installation broadens the idea of connection through different forms of communication, as the artist, GSA Fine Art Photography graduate (2022), pays homage to her family heritage, researching the duality between industrial labour and domestic care.
‘My autoethnographic approach to research and making (usually photo specific) in this case takes the form of installation for IOTA. Output paper reems show punch card translations from a recorded conversation between me and my father. The audio discusses the parallels between his occupation and pastime and the interlinked and transitional significances they have had in his life. I convert these conversations into baudot murray code (factory punch card code) referencing the labour intensive past and almost mimic musical composition which is relative to his upbringing in pipe bands along the west coast of Scotland. I have individually hand punched the translations, hanging them in the space with optional audio of the pipe band drum sequences for the public to listen to as they travel round the space. The walls feature a few key photographic works, some of which are archived from childhood. There are multiple translated handouts (including embossed braille), which I hand printed in the SWG3 Caseroom, broadening this idea of connection through forms of communication.’ Meg Auld
MEG AULD (b.1994 Glasgow, Scotland)
Auld’s work pays homage to her family heritage, researching the duality between industrial labour and domestic care. Through photography and sculpture, she shares the history of her heritage and her family’s contribution to the industrial age in Scotland.
Auld received a first-class honours degree in Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art, 2022.
RECENT
2022/23 Selected artist for FUTUREPROOF Stills, Edinburgh
2022 Residency at SWG3 Caseroom with Edwin Pickstone, Glasgow.
SELECTED SHOWS
2022
Futureproof Stills, Edinburgh
Burning Dust Glasgow School of Art, Degree Show
Interim Exhibition (group show) 16 Nicolson Street, Glasgow
2021
OFF GRID (group show) Acre House, Maryhill, Glasgow
Off Grid #3 (group show) Bellgrove, Glasgow
PHOTO WORK - Betty 2, co-curated with Mae Mackenzie, New Glasgow Society (West) Glasgow
ONLINE FEATURES
FASTFORWARD University of the Creative Arts, Online Showcase, Women in Photography
WORMS Magazine / Burning House Books (online feature)
INFRINGE Magazine (September issue)
Moving Parts Glasgow School of Art, Y3 Show (online feature)
TEETH Magazine, On the Rough Side of Publishing, Burning House Books editorial
Random Access The Spaces In-Between (issue #2)
WORKSHOPS/TALKS
2023
Artist Talk for FUTUREPROOF, Stills, Edinburgh
Visiting Tutor supporting Fine Art photography, Glasgow School of Art