Situated at the intersection of art and ethnography, my practice centres on creative, critical investigations into the experiences and atmospheres of selected enduring places in contemporary culture. These places include British seaside resorts and seaside amusement arcades, barber shops in south Manchester, British art schools, and most recently, ancient and modern stone circles in the UK and Ireland. I have developed an artist-ethnography approach that utilises auto-ethnographic methods, considering and communicating visual, material, spatial and audio findings gathered via fieldwork, walking, lens-based media, sound recording, clay pressing as expanded drawing, litter picking, fieldnotes and site-writing. In my current lecturing practice at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University I draw on this methodology, adopting a mixed-methods, process approach to art education, with research interests in light and dark, illumination, sound, and surface.
Image: Seaside amusement arcade shoe pics. Risograph print. Martha Lineham.