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BackA trans-disciplinary artist using film, performance, textiles, and installation. Moira chases belonging and the myths of her ancestry through water and land. This takes her into complex relationships through time; human and non-human histories, global trade economies, ancestral intuition, and the transformation of rupture.

Exhibitons, Perfomances, and Screenings

Do Rocks Remember Lava?, sitting in the dust, Listen Gallery,

Glasgow, 2025


The Library Is All of These Things, the dirt eaters, Eastside Projects 

Birmingham, 2025


Flatpack Film Festival, the dark mirror, Centrala

Birmingham, 2025


HippFest, the dark mirror , Hippodrome (UK Premiere)

Bo’ness, 2025


Vent with Flos Collective, Celtic Connections, (group show), Drygate

Glasgow,2025


What The Water Remembers, HippFest, Bo’ness Library

Bo’ness, 2025


Open Studios, David Dale Studio Residency, David Dale

Glasgow, 2023


flowing through volcanic transformation (or the water that held all), RIG Arts Community Space

Paisley, 2023


Needs and Freedoms (joint show), 16 Collective, 16 Nicholson St

Glasgow, 2022


a family history (performance), 16 Nicholson St

Glasgow, 2022


where the restless oceans pound (public sculpture), Sustran’s

Bowling Harbour, 2021


dreams of salt and other ghosts (I, II & III) (performance), Sustran’s

Bowling Harbous, 2021



Workshops, Talks & Contributions

aqueous becomings*, Water As Method, Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow, 2025


In Conversation with White Teeth and Moira Salt (Cinenova), Site Gallery

Sheffield, 2025


What The Water Remembers, Rosebank Distillery/Union Canal

Falkirk, 2024


The Work We Share, chaired discussion with Nat Raha and Camara Taylor, Glasgow Women’s Library

Glasgow, 2024


Channeling the Fire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 
with Dr Karen Salt

Berlin, 2023


The Work We Share, chaired discussion with Cinenova Working Group, feminist elsewheres

Berlin, 2023


of thread along the black stretch of ever, Culture Collective

(online), 2023




Awards & Commissions

What The Water Remembers, HippFest and Flatpack, 2024/25



Creative Scotland Open Fund - Research and Development Grant, 2024-current


Syllabus VII, 2024/25


Sustran’s, Black History Month Commission, 2021




Needs and Freedoms (joint-show with Fiona McGurk), 16 Nicholson Street

Glasgow 2022


i don’t yet know the half of things (study), 2025, Giclée print, digital collage


Curated by Aga Paulina Młyńczak, this exhibition originated from our shared core interest in a tweak of human nature which created and still perpetuates structural racism, and which will also survive it. Through different artistic approaches, McGurk and Salt take a look at the present and cast themselves into the future. Salt uses personal voices and imagination as means for recovery, while McGurk uses archives and studies bureaucratic frameworks as a way of getting closer to the universal human flaws at the root of the problem.


Press: 
The Skinny, March 2022
Scottish Art News | Fleming Collection March 2022
The Dirt Eaters title refers to those who used to consume specific types of earth and clay for vitamins. 

In the film two women are immersed in an intimate conversation. One of them recalls living on a toxic land, while on screen a disembodied figure is looking for her bearings in an unreal landscape.

The works were developed in tandem with ‘Reparative Trespassing’ – a publication edited and introduced by Isabella Shields. Therein we collected elements of urban planning, community stories, personal narratives, poetic geology, hidden ciphers and data visualisations in order to build fragments of future archives and host past spectres.

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Authors: Fiona McGurk/Moira Salt/Aga Paulina Młyńczak
Editor: Isabella Shields
Graphic Design: Zineb Benassarou
Bookbinding: Juju Books


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