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Jamie

McNeill

Jamie McNeill is an artist from Glasgow whose work is informed by a critical engagement with landscape. He is drawn to places with neglected histories of class struggle, buried streams of myth, sites latent with the utopian impulse and where the path disappears under the moss. He makes hybrid works that fuse fictive elements with archival and experiential research. His film ‘The Concrete Seed: A New Town Fable’ (2025) has been described as “an essayistic fiction that explores the dictatorship of the right angle and the haecceity of poured concrete”. It has been screened at festivals in Brazil (Cinema Urbana: Paisagens Radicais), Mexico (NEOSFest 2025), at an archaeological conference in Spain (CHAT Botxo, Bilbao) and was exhibited at Kirkcudbright Galleries in 2026 as part of the Visual Arts Scotland exhibition ‘Common Ground: The Living Landscape’. He graduated from the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2024 with a Masters with Distinction in Contemporary Art and Archaeology. Portrait by Theophane Catelli.

Disciplines: Mixed Media

Materials: Assemblage, Found, Objects
Jamie McNeill is an artist from Glasgow whose work is informed by a critical engagement with landscape. He is drawn to places with neglected histories of class struggle, buried streams of myth, sites latent with the utopian impulse and where the path disappears under the moss. He makes hybrid works that fuse fictive elements with archival and experiential research. His film ‘The Concrete Seed: A New Town Fable’ (2025) has been described as “an essayistic fiction that explores the dictatorship of the right angle and the haecceity of poured concrete”. It has been screened at festivals in Brazil (Cinema Urbana: Paisagens Radicais), Mexico (NEOSFest 2025), at an archaeological conference in Spain (CHAT Botxo, Bilbao) and was exhibited at Kirkcudbright Galleries in 2026 as part of the Visual Arts Scotland exhibition ‘Common Ground: The Living Landscape’. He graduated from the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2024 with a Masters with Distinction in Contemporary Art and Archaeology. Portrait by Theophane Catelli.

Previous Experience

2026: UNESCO Creative Cities Living Heritage Residency Programme, New Lanark; Hospitalfield Graduate Residency, Arbroath; Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh; Dundee Radio Club; Common Ground: The Living Landscape, Kirkcudbright Galleries. 2025: NeosFest: Encuentro Internacional de Experimentación Audiovisual, Puebla, Mexico; Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference, Bilbao, Spain; Cinema Urbana: Paisagens Radicais, Brasília, Brazil.

Collections

The Concrete Seed: A New Town Fable (2025). Short Film, 20 mins.

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