jamie Kane

installatie - schrijven - sculptuur - tekenen - video

I like to think about my works as functioning like landfill sites, where layers of material history sit together simultaneously, decompose at varying rates, and create slippages across time. This results in works mainly in video, audio, sculpture and text, that strategically move between the minor, micro or ephemeral, to the major, macro and the enduring. For me the landfill is a place where temporalities, hierarchies, values ​​​​​​and knowledges are loosened, undone and attributable in new ways.


The Everted Rim of a Vase (Detail) - Installation made with Ian Kane at Eden Court, Scotland. Link to accompanying audio work: https://vimeo.com/485516345/fb5c9384b8
The Everted Rim of a Vase - Installation made with Ian Kane at Eden Court, Scotland. Link to accompanying audio work: https://vimeo.com/485516345/fb5c9384b8
Plough (Detail)
Diver (Part of Plough 2021)
Plough - Machine embroidered felt.
Plough - Plough took the transcription of a diary from 1919 by my ancestor Alexander Johnstone as a starting point. In his diary Alexander grapples with a forming egalitarian politics, records home remedies and adapts lines of poems into the news of the day. The exhibition puts the process of drafting and the rebuilding of disparate parts at its centre. Where support structures for sculptures come prior to what is held, and fragments, sketches and underdrawings take precedent to what is fixed and finished
Grafting - Solo exhibition at CCA:Glasgow The exhibition comprising of a 4-channel audio work, digitally printed mural and series of sculptures, formed an intimate network of people, things and places. These relationships were framed through reference to the horticultural technique of grafting. The exhibitions central element was a mural comprising of multiple images, a ‘film’ in which the element of time was removed making it exist in a perpetual present.
Grafting (Video + Audio Documentation) - Solo exhibition at CCA:Glasgow The exhibition comprising of a 4-channel audio work, digitally printed mural and series of sculptures, formed an intimate network of people, things and places. These relationships were framed through reference to the horticultural technique of grafting. The exhibitions central element was a mural comprising of multiple images, a ‘film’ in which the element of time was removed making it exist in a perpetual present.
The Pump - Video Documentation of Installation: The Pump, retells the story of my parents house subsiding into a disused mine outside Edinburgh in 1986; using my voice as a means to displace how the event is related to time. The video folds in a premonition that exists within the oral history of the region my parents now live. A premonition that myself and my mother also share; that of the landscape, economy and way of life drastically altering due to flooding.
The Pump (Installation View) - The Pump, retells the story of my parents house subsiding into a disused mine outside Edinburgh in 1986; using my voice as a means to displace how the event is related to time. The video folds in a premonition that exists within the oral history of the region my parents now live. A premonition that myself and my mother also share; that of the landscape, economy and way of life drastically altering due to flooding.