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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



the dark mirror, HippFest & Flatpack Film Festival     2025


the dark mirror weaves a mythological tale, drawing on the rich recorded and unrecorded history of canals, their global colonial significance, labour, and social economies; woven in the lineage of Celtic storytelling tradition, the power of ani-morphic transformation, and threes.  

Inspired by the 1-mile long Falkirk Tunnel, known in the local imagination as "The Darkkie", the film imagines this site as a space of confluence and transformation for three historical travellers connected via the global trade economies.


Co-commissioned by HippFest and Flatpack Festival, with support from Creative Scotland and Falkirk Council.

Premiered at HippFest (Bo’ness) & Flatpack (Birmingham), 2025
with live score by Tommy Perman and Andrew Wasylyk (Clay Pipe Music)

Based on research into the Falkirk Archives and using footage from BFI National Archive, Media Archive Central England, Collection Eye Filmmuseum Netherland and the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive.




The Dark Mirror, with live score  by Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman (Clay Pipe Music), Hippfest, 2025. Photo credit by Kat Gollock.
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