Margaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon
- Programme Lead, MFA
- Job Title
- Programme Lead, MFA
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art, School of Innovation and Technology, Interdisciplinary Research
- M.Salmon@gsa.ac.uk
Biography
I work in film, photography and sculpture to converse with and effect discourse around contemporary visual culture and the politics of representation/representation of politics in art.
My hope is that my work provides an intersectional feminist model of research/practice, one that articulates and amplifies 'the everyday' whilst also provoking dynamic thought around hierarchies of power and dominant ideologies that determine basic human experiences, rights and liberties.
The work I make is about noticing the world and spending time with people and in places. I work through a lens mostly, on cameras and in film, but also by printing photographs and complicating representations through photo-chemical manipulation and analogue materiality, as well as sound and sculpture/installation. Part of this optical project is to reclaim technologies of the 20th Century for more authentically universal purposes, and to encompass community and multi-perspective narratives within my output.
Along with these material, in-the-world, investigations I employ critical-poetic writing, photo based instruction and creative conversation as a means of research and contribution to discourse around art/film pedagogy and early years learning. I've published several books exploring concepts and histories around language, analogue artists film and women's creative histories, am developing a pod-cast focusing on women's analogue film technique and an app offering primary school educators and parents experimental film as a catalyst for learning.
Research Interests
I am interested in the embodied camera and image construction/ deconstruction/reconstruction through various critical perspectives. Current research focuses on community filmmaking, trauma, legacies of war/conflict, ghosts, ghost stories, childrens film education and feminist independent film.
Latest Additions
- Salmon, Margaret (2026) Mackintosh.
- Salmon, Margaret and Sterling, Linder (2026) A Kind of Glamour About Me.
- Salmon, Margaret, Jack, Marcus, Leaver-Yap, Mason and Taal, Tako (2025) Roundtable: Working Nearby: Mason Leaver-Yap, Margaret Salmon, Tako Taal. DOWSER, 10. pp. 1-56. ISSN 2634-7091
- Salmon, Margaret (2025) Assembly. Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Friday 27 June 2025 - Sunday 19 October 2025
- Salmon, Margaret (2025) boy bird monkey rose (solo exhibition).
- Salmon, Margaret, Fusco, Maria, Werner, Héloïse and Lockwood, Annea (2025) History of the Present (solo exhibition). Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 15 Feb - 29 March 2025
- Salmon, Margaret (2024) Cinematographa (film screening & book launch). ICA Cinema, London, April 28, 2024
- Salmon, Margaret (2024) Spider (site specific Yokohama Triennial commission).
- Salmon, Margaret, Ahewsh, Peggy, Broomberg, Betzy, Lowder, Rose, Mangolte, Babette, Storr, Rhea, Stratman, Deborah, Syed, Alia and Szlam, Malena (2023) Cinematographa. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König and Secession, Austria, Koln. ISBN 978-3-7533-0469-4
- Salmon, Margaret (2023) An Artists' Guide to Analogue Cinematography. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König and Secession, Austria, Koln. ISBN 978-3-7533-0469-4
Most Viewed Items
| # | Item title | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K is for Kato, an Esperanto Alphabet book | 256 | 11 |
| 2 | Life in Film: Margaret Salmon, Frieze, 2018 | 219 | 1 |
| 3 | Circle [solo exhibition] | 193 | 6 |
| 4 | Hole [solo exhibition] | 192 | 6 |
| 5 | Icarus (after Amelia) | 185 | 89 |
| 6 | Cladach, 2018 | 185 | 7 |
| 7 | Boy (winter) | 184 | 252 |
| 8 | Home, 2019 | 175 | 7 |
| 9 | Director's Lab, Margaret Salmon presents Shore at Under Her Eye | 167 | |
| 10 | Surplus | 165 | 8 |

