168 hours

Solo Exhibition, Photobook

& Smaller Works

168 hours is a series created between May and July of 2026.

The installation and collection was made for solo exhibtion at Lyon & Turbull’s Annual summer show & contemporary art auction, their “festival edition” in the midst of the Edinburgh Arts festival. The 2025 collection included an extensive and elcectic collection of works from Elizabeth Blackadder, John Kirby, John Byrne, Alisdair Gray and David Hockney.

The works on show include 3 large hanging cyanotypes, recording the rising tide and moving sun as it occurred on three different beaches on three different days on Eigg, alongside the collection of many smaller works across various media.

exhibition text

“These works are part of a larger body of I68 artworks created during and after my time on the Isle of Eigg, spending one week with the bothy project - I68 hours. Using graph as starting form (“graph” originating from ancient greek “to write” or “to draw”), this collection comprises of photographs, solargraphs, drawings, writing and other experiments in visualising of everyday phenomena, centering on the movements of sky and sea.

This interplay of sunlight and time's ephemeral but constant quality is made slightly more permanent, with the impression of touch; both in the intervention of the artist and the tactile quality of the final works onto the viewer.”

<——————- photography diary

Cyanotypes, an early form of photography with a distinct blue appearance, rely on the interplay between sun, water and time: sunlight begins the chemical reaction, while water halts it, and the time between beginning and end decides the depth of blue.

duets of tide & sun

In these works, at the top of the material, where the sun shone for longest, a deeper blue appeared. At the bottom, meeting the shoreline of the rising tide which stopped the chemical process, unexposed sections of white lead into a gradient of the lightest blue and onwards. From this process, blue gradients of time were made between the rising tide and the shining sun, along with interference from the wet sand below and sparks from the lapping waves above. These works look toward the cycles of tide and sun, which repeat daily but are never quite the same; somewhere between art, science and play, the works are looking to capture a glimpse of both the rhythmic patterns and subtle variations that quietly shape our daily experience.