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.
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.
| # | Item title |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K is for Kato, an Esperanto Alphabet book | 171 | 6 |
| 2 | Life in Film: Margaret Salmon, Frieze, 2018 | 150 | 1 |
| 3 | Circle [solo exhibition] | 144 | 3 |
| 4 | Cladach, 2018 | 140 | 5 |
| 5 | Icarus (after Amelia) | 130 | 60 |
| 6 | Boy (winter) | 128 | 151 |
| 7 | Surplus | 128 | 8 |
| 8 | Home, 2019 | 127 | 4 |
| 9 | Hole [solo exhibition] | 127 | 3 |
| 10 | Director's Lab, Margaret Salmon presents Shore at Under Her Eye | 121 |
