Margaret Salmon

Name

Margaret Salmon

Job title

Lecturer Fine Art Critical Studies

Email

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.

School or Academic Area Supervised for

School of Fine Art, School of Innovation and Technology, Interdisciplinary Research