Alight.
Four colour risograph print on recycled cartridge paper reassembling selected fragments from vintage postcards of the Blackpool Illuminations into a postcard format. Work exhibited as part of 20:20 Print Exchange at Manchester School of Art and Hotbed Press, Manchester (2025).
The Golden Mile. Artist’s Book.
This book celebrates electric light, colour and space that endure at the British seaside. The images rework selected fragments from vintage postcards of the Blackpool Illuminations as four colour risograph prints on recycled cartridge paper. Each print is elevated on its page and arranged into a concertina book that, when unfolded and standing, is reminiscent of Blackpool’s historical seafront promenade after dark and when the Illuminations are on.
Seaside Amusement Arcades Shoe Pics.
One colour violet risograph print on grey cartridge paper with various seaside amusement arcade carpets. Martha Lineham. (2022)
Clay Impressions of Stone Circles.
Working with clay impressing to interact with the qualities and experiences of stone circles through touch, pressing clay onto interesting surfaces to go beyond the visual through direct observation, shifting emphasis towards sensory and embodied information to unsettle assumptions about place (Macleod, 2024). The simple action of rolling and warming a small ball of clay in my hands before pressing it onto a stone surface and holding still to create a textural impression stimulates a haptic, affective connection and is repeated at each stone circle I visit. (2024 - ongoing)
Circling the Stones: Beermat as Artwork.
I am interested in exploring everyday objects and merchandise as artworks. Here, a run of beermats that bring together a close up photo of a stone from a modern stone circle site in Manchester and site-writing on the sounds of this particular stone circle on the reverse are exhibited in the bar above a The Stones Project and Dark Arts Kollective event and exhibition in Manchester. Adopting the beermat as a space for art brings my research findings to a wider audience, with up-close interactions with the beermat as artwork encouraged through it’s familiar format.
Photo postcard slide photo postcard.
1. Bank Holiday in Blackpool / 2. The North Bay, Scarborough / 3. The Windmill, Bidsten Hill, Birkenhead / 4. Sefton Park, Liverpool / 5. Cotton Exchange, Liverpool / 6. Rhuddlan Castle / 7. Brittania Tubular Bridge / 8. Pen Rhos College, Colwyn Bay / 9. Dyserth Waterfall near Rhyl / 10. Scott Series No. 565 Barmouth by Moonlight / 11. Waterfall, Jesmond Dene, Newcastle-on-Tyne / 12. Betwis-y-Coed Pandy Bridge. Work exhibited and published in The Imaginary Museum: Art Library as Archive Exhibition & Book, Leeds College of Art and Leeds Central Library. 2015.
Blackpool at night.
Postcards exploring the unique lightscape of Blackpool at night. These are from the 1970s and 1980s.
The Blue Guide.
This photographic collage juxtaposes numerous fragmented blue skies from travel brochures and guidebooks to explore the ethereal pretence of the popular travel image and its place in the travel experience. The work adopts the title of one of Roland Barthes Mythologies essays, first translated into English in 1957. Barthes dates the mythology of the Blue Guide (the travel guidebook) back to the 19th century, to a phase in history when the bourgeoisie was enjoying a kind of new-born euphoria in buying effort, in keeping its image and essence without feeling any of its ill-effects.
Work exhibited in Mapping Memory, Unfold Fringe for British Art Show, at 42 New Briggate, Leeds. 2015-2016.