Exhibitions & Screenings
Red Road Underground – Feb – March 2012
Red Road Underground is a special collaboration multimedia exhibition between photographer Chris Leslie and illustrator Mitch Miller documenting the last days of Glasgow’s iconic Red Road Flats in the form of a ‘hidden’ underground bingo hall and a nautically themed bar called The Brig. The exhibition will run at the same time the Red Road Flats will start to be demolished.
Previous Exhibitions and Screenings
If you are interested in hosting a screening and discussion on my MA project – ‘Hope, memories, loss and community – four stories of regeneration in Glasgow‘ or my other long term overseas documentary projects then email me here >
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow then touring Scotland – Sep – Dec 2011
I was commissioned by National Theatre of Scotland to complete a traveling exhibition and a short film documenting the Gorbals and Glasgow in transition. The film and exhibition will be shown alongside the play Men Should Weep that will open at the Citizens Theatre in September to October and then will travel with the play as it tours Scotland. The play is set in 1930′s Gorbals and is a moving and funny portrayal of impoverished 1930s Glasgow, a raw salute to the human spirit. To see the exhibition and the play you can buy your tickets here.
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Document 9 – Glasgow – October 2011
Exhibition of prints and film to mark the opening of Document 9 Human Rights Festival and included Paddy’s Coffin and a selection of new work from my long term project – The Glasgow Renaissance. During the Film Festival I also screened the final edit of the film following Margaret Jaconelli, who was evicted from her home to make way for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Margaret and other members of the Dalmarnock community attended a special discussion after the film screenings to discuss the situation in Dalmarnock.
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Platform – Glasgow – April 2011
Included a special screening and discussion opening reception of my four short films on Glasgow and month long exhibition.
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Aye Write Festival – March 2011
As part of the Red Road Cultural Project and the launch of the new novel – This Road is Red by Alison Irvine, I premiered my next documentary project – Red Road Underground – a documentary project remembering life at the ‘soon to be demolished’ Red Road Flats in Glasgow – using photography, audio from an abandoned underground bar and bingo hall.
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Witness & Representation – Nov 2010
I was invited to screen some international work from Africa, Eastern Europe and Haiti and chair a discussion at the Document Festival Student Forum to discuss and explore human rights issues.
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Glasgow Short Film Festival: A Showcase of New Voices in Scottish Film – Nov 2010
Screening of Paddy’s Market film and discussion as part of the Glasgow Short Film Festival at the GFT.
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Apple Store, Glasgow – Oct 2010
Showcasing some new international work from Haiti and Moldova – documenting the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake as well as continuation of my documentary work of state institutions for children in Eastern Europe. Also showing some recent Glasgow multimedia work from my MA project – Hope, memories, loss & community.
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Eastwood Park Theatre – Sep 2010
Exhibition and screening night showing some recent Glasgow multimedia work from my MA project – Hope, memories, loss & community.
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Glasgow Film Festival, Feb 2010
Screening of Paddy’s Market short film as part of ART / ROC /DOC by Thisiscentralstation and running during Glasgow Film Festival
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Market Gallery, Nov 2009
Screening of my unfinished MA project held in Trongate 103. Invited guests included some of the people documented in my project to faciliate a discussion after the screening.
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Remembering Paddy’s Market – May 2010
To mark the one year anniversary I designed and installed a self funded photography and multimedia exhibition space within the Barra’s Market in Glasgow. One of the indoor market stalls was transformed – plastered, painted and lit to make it a unique, if not one of the smallest gallery’s you may have seen and came complete with Paddy’s coffin. The reason the venue was in the Barra’s Market itself is that many of the original traders of Paddy’s Market set up within the market after the closure of Paddy’s (many of them struggling, as their days of trading have been cut from 6 days to 2 days per week). It was equally important to me that this show was exhibited and seen in a space out with a regular gallery, and also to highlight the issue that the Barra’s Market will no doubt be the next Glasgow institution to be closed. The opening night of the exhibition was held on the 15th May 2010, one year on to the day that Paddy’s was closed. Traders and friends joined for a screening and piss up to celebrate Paddy’s one year on.
Photographs of the exhibition space and opening night can be viewed below:
Beyond Borders, London – March 2010
Some photographs from my MA course were shown at an exhibition in London in March 2010: Shot on everything from medium format cameras to mobile phones, and with genres including experimental street photography, portraiture and traditional in-your-face photojournalism, Beyond Borders represents the collective results of the first ever online master’s degree course in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication, a bold and groundbreaking experiment reflecting the current monumental changes within the industry. http://www.16photographers.com
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‘Home’ – Music Rooms London / House of Commons / Hoopers Gallery – 2002 – 2006
An exhibition of children’s portraits taken across Eastern Europe and Africa highlighting the plight of abandoned and orphaned children.
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