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I work with Davide Bugarin as Bugarin + Castle to create moving image, performance, sculpture and installation works.
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I founded both Pollyanna queer arts company and Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival. I won the Leadership Award at the Creative Edinburgh Awards 2016 for founding both: “This award recognises an outstanding individual for their leadership and contribution to their sector, or the creative industries as a whole.”
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I founded both Pollyanna queer arts company and Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival. I won the Leadership Award at the Creative Edinburgh Awards 2016 for founding both: “This award recognises an outstanding individual for their leadership and contribution to their sector, or the creative industries as a whole.”
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Exhibitions, film
festivals, performances
Bugarin + Castle to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2026
in a project curated by Mount Stuart Trust.
With production support and co-comissioning from Forma.
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Solo exhibitions:
- Scotland + Venice at Venice Biennale, 2026
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Mount Stuart Trust (Isle of Bute), 2027
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Further venues to be announced 2027/28
Thyroid Notch (2025)
by Bugarin + Castle
Performance: City Art Centre (Edinburgh), 2025
Sore Throat (2023)
by Bugarin + Castle
Solo installation: Tate Modern (London), 2025
Solo screening: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), 2025
Solo exhibitions:
Microscope Gallery (NYC), 2024
Kriittinen Gallery (Turku), 2024
Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), 2023
Group exhibitions:
WHYNoT, (Manila), 2025
Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Art, 2025
Funder: AHRC via Creative Informatics/University of Edinburgh, Creative Scotland, Fruitmarket, Newcastle University
OMOS (2022) (Producer)
Solo exhibitions:
Kriittinen Gallery, Turku (Finland), 2024
KINDL Centre for Contemporary Arts (Berlin), 2023
Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), 2023
Stirling Castle (Stirling), 2022
Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh) 2022
Dunoon Burgh Hall (Dunoon), 2022
Opening Film of Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, 2023
Winner: Best Experimental Film at Boomtown Film & Music Festival (Texas). 2024
Funder: Creative Scotland, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic Environment Scotland, People’s Postcode Trust, City of Edinburgh Council, EventScotland and others.
Media: BBC Radio 4, BBC Scotland Radio and in The Scotsman, The List, The Skinny, The Daily Record, Snack Magazine, Somewhere For Us
12-month part-time Research and Development (2020)
- Funder: £15k Creative Scotland, Historic Environment Scotland and
others
Lupi Lupi Lu (2019)
- Solo presentation: BBC website, 2019-present
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Group exhibition: Kunstmuseum, Bonn, March-April 2021
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Film festival: Glasgow Short Film Festival, March 2021
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Online archive: blinkvideo curated video art platform,
2021-present
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Arts festival: Birkbeck, May 2021
- Funder: BBC Scotland / LUX Scotland
Tonight Tonight No More (2018)
- Solo exhibition: St Cecilia’s Hall/Talbot Rice Gallery, May 2018
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Funder: Talbot Rice Gallery
TRG3 Residency (2017-18)
- Residencey with gallery, plus research trip to Venice Biennale
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Funder: Talbot Rice Gallery
Entertainment (2017)
- Group exhibition: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, March-April
2018
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Joint solo screening: Talbot Rice Gallery, September 2017
- Group exhibition: Gallery 23, Edinburgh, August 2018
To Me You Mean The Most (2017) (Co-creator with Ed Twaddle)
- Group exhibition: Block 336, January-March 2018
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Group exhibition: BALTIC, Gateshead, September-November 2017
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Joint solo screening: Talbot Rice Gallery, September 2017
Right Now (2016)
- Group exhibition: KisUzem, Budapest, May 2016
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Group exhibition: Telep, Budapest, May 2016
Screensaver (2015)
- Group exhibition: Threewalls Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Screening: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
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Screening: Dikeou Collection, Denver
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Touring US group gallery screening: at Recess, New York; Vox
Populi, Philadelphia; SEDIMENT, Richmond; Double Double Land, Toronto; The
Cave, Detroit; Skylab, Columbus; The Luminary, St. Louis; Threewalls, Chicago;
The White Page, Minneapolis; Leisure Gallery, Denver; FalseFront, Portland;
StoreFront Lab, San Francisco
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Film festivals:
- International Symposium for Electronic Arts, Vancouver
- Miami New Media Art Festival, Miami
- Digital Muddy Expanded Media Festival, Illinois
Performance
- Mean Most (duo performance),
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 2017
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Pollyfilla performances, Pollyanna cabaret,
various venues, over 100 shows, 2015-present
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Buy now! and Presents Presently (solo performance), Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh, 2019 & 2021
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soursop (solo
performance), Embassy Gallery,
Edinburgh, 2018
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Puppet Karaoke, (solo performance) at
JW3 Jewish Cultural Centre, London, 2013
Various
- Group exhibition: Meridian Club Gallery, Beijing, 2016
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Group exhibition: Stanley Mills, Perth, 2016
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Film festival: Ickle Film Fest, Dundee, 2014
Publications
- Catalague for Videonale.18
- FELT Book,
eFELT epublication, The Institute for New Feeling
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Catalogue for International Symposium for
Electronic Arts
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Catalogue for Incubarte Festival
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Interview in Stigmart Videofocus annual video art journal
Teaching, Curation and Direction
Lecturer in Fine Art, Newcastle University
September 2023 - present
Teaching Fellow in Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
September 2023 - August 2024
Associate Lecturer, University for the Creative Arts
January 2023 - August 2023
Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck School of Arts
December 2019 - May 2020
Curator, Historic Environment Scotland
July 2021 - March 2022
Film Programmer (Dance), Aesthetica Short Film Festival
2021 - present
Director, Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival (EAMIF)
2015 - present
Director, Pollyanna
2015 – present
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