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Margaret Salmon

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Margaret Salmon

  • Programme Lead, MFA
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Job Title
Programme Lead, MFA
School or Academic Area Supervised for
School of Fine Art, School of Innovation and Technology, Interdisciplinary Research
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.

Latest Additions

  1. Salmon, Margaret (2026) Mackintosh.
  2. Salmon, Margaret and Sterling, Linder (2026) A Kind of Glamour About Me.
  3. 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
  4. Salmon, Margaret (2025) Assembly. Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Friday 27 June 2025 - Sunday 19 October 2025
  5. Salmon, Margaret (2025) boy bird monkey rose (solo exhibition).
  6. 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
  7. Salmon, Margaret (2024) Cinematographa (film screening & book launch). ICA Cinema, London, April 28, 2024
  8. Salmon, Margaret (2024) Spider (site specific Yokohama Triennial commission).
  9. 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
  10. 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