My work is an enquiry into the Scottish landscape, connecting the archaeological and industrial by looking at the varied and forgotten legacies, tales and manipulations of the environment. It deconstructs conventional images of the Scottish landscape, often romanticised as wild, untouched and separate from modernity and human influence, by eroding the binary categorisation of nature and technology.
Existing in-between fact and fiction, ancient and modern, my work is speculative and slips in and out of time periods by examining the anthroposphere (the part of the environment made or modified by humans). I explore these overlapping relationships using psycho-geographic techniques of ‘drifting’ and ‘playfulness’ by embedding myself within the landscape to connect with unseen and intangible temporalities and histories. These findings are expressed through sound that uses a mixture of archaeoacoustics, acoustic ecology, archival sound and installations that play with archival and collected materials. I extract materials that exist within the landscape, playing with layers of time by referencing artifacts found, structures that exist and those yet to be created using prefabricated industrial and scrap materials. The false dichotomy of nature/technology that informs my research is reflected by my choice of materials that sit on the cusp, opposing and mirroring each other, blurring the lines between organic and synthesised, femme and industrial, escaping categorisation and occupying realms of speculation.
https://kirstenmillar.cargo.site/
2022
Hidden Doors, Edinburgh 2022
2021
Hidden Doors, Edinburgh, September 2021
ECA Masters Show, Edinburgh, August 2021
Digital Travels part of A Space Between, SSA, Online, August 2021
2020
M8+ M8s, broadcast as part of Radiophrenia 20, Glasgow, November 2020
House/Hold, Sculpture Court Show, ECA, Febuary 2020
2019
Dighty Burn soundscape + Instal 1 Quarry soundscape, broadcast as part of Radiophrenia 19, Glasgow, CCA, May 2019
2018
Proposed Costs, Eminent Domain, former Robert Miller Space, West Chelsea District, New York, July 2018
Friction/Site, VAS @ Summerhall SATELLITE, Edinburgh, 26 May - 13 July, 2018
Can Fish Squat?, RSA New Contemporaries, Edinburgh, 2018
2017
Adverse Possession, Freshly Squeezed, Dundee, 2017, (co-curated)
Instal I Quarry, DJCAD Graduate Degree Show, Dundee, 2017
AWARDS
Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship, ECA, 2019
RSA New Contemporaries, 2018
PUBLICATIONS/WRITING
iQhiya Review published in The Skinny, June 2018
Proposed Costs, 2018
Related Images, multiple artist, 2017
Soundscapes and Landscapes, 3 essays, 2017
EDUCATION
MA Contemporary Art Practice, Distinction, Edinburgh College of Art,
BA Fine Art, First Class Honours, 2017, DJCAD, Dundee University
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