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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




where the restless oceans pound, Sustran’s, BHM,     Bowling Harbour, 2021


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


Performances:
dreams of salt (and other ghosts)
(I, II, and III)

A sculptural installation and set of performances on diasporic experience, hauntings of Slavery, and the Black female body. The series of polyphonic spoken word performances used ritual in order to retrieve and re-embody memory; giving space for the ghosts (past, present and future) to speak.

The sculpture processes Atlantic drift wood with metaphors for the treatment for the African slaves being sold, and preparation of ships of the same period. Soot, oil, and rope.


The performances draw inspiration from Matana Roberts’ jazz album Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, with contributing voices from Black Feminist writers and poets.

Commissioned by Sustrans
with support from Transport Scotland







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