Taking 24 hours for its beacon to do one rotation The Lighthouse is a meditation on a day and our relationship to time and light. When visitors reach the highest landing of the stairwell they realise that they have not just been climbing the stairs of the studios but also the tower of the lighthouse. Its almost incomprehensibly slow movement makes it impossible for anyone to witness an entire revolution but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen when the viewers aren’t there. The work continues when everyone leaves. When lives, homes, countries, or continents are returned to The Lighthouse revolves exactly as they left it.

Performance event taking place on 29/2/2024, on the last night of the Sauchiehall Street M&S being used as an artists’ studio.

It was around an hour long and approximately 25 people attended. A live performance, then documented in a subsequent publication (this is for sale in my degree show space). I played a fictional “Ghostkeeper” who met the attendees at the back entrance of the M&S, and led them on a narrative-historical ghost tour of the building. Along the way, we met ghosts who brought to life the characters of M&S’ imagined past. The ghosts were played by peers, for example – Laurie as ‘The Outlawed Carrier Bag’. All of the characters appear in the short story in the publication, which weaves together a fiction, inspired by some actual history of the M&S and surrounding Sauchiehall Street area, and the first person perspective of the “Ghostkeeper”.