A collection of stills from the Installation Vestigial Borders shown at the Dundee Masters Show 2014

This show came together as the culmination of the MFA in Art and Humanities that I completed in September 2014. I was very fortunate to have been awarded the William S. Phillips Award which allowed me to spend the whole year concentrating on developing my practice. The final semester of the course saw us move into the studio where we would show at the end of summer. This meant months of work in a beautiful large studio overlooking the Tay – an unbelievable privilege.

This time in one space allowed to explore building a large and fully interconnected sculptural installation. I knew from the outset that I wanted to use water as a source or power for all the mechanical works and set about making a pond and waterwheel. These I connected via a brass crankshaft and through fishing lines running along the walls. I loved having everything moving off of the same spinning heart – it brought such rhythm to the space – and the tensions and hesitations of the imperfectly balanced wheel echoed everywhere you looked.

For this body of work I was awarded the RSA Kinross Scholarship, the DFAS Emergent Artist Award and the Duncan of Jordanstone Masters Prize.