Deirdre Macleod (BA (Hons) Cantab, BA (Hons) Edin, MSc (Soc Sci) Edin)
Lecturer Arts, COL Director of Students
Contact details
- Email: deirdre.macleod@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Centre for Open Learning
Paterson's Land
Holyrood Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Availability
Monday and Tuesday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Wednesday 9.00 am - 12.30 pm
Background
I am interested in what it means to live in cities. I investigate aspects of this question through interdisciplinary methods which combine fieldwork, walking, expanded drawing and creative and academic writing.
My artistic practice draws on my original academic training in Human Geography. I hold an honours degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge, a Masters degree in European and International Politics and an honours degree in Painting from the University of Edinburgh. I am currently a PhD candidate in Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. My thesis examines how artistic practices, such as drawing and movement-based strategies, might contribute to the ways in which we can better understand undervalued spaces and places within the peripheries of cities.
I exhibit and perform in regularly in the UK and internationally. Recent projects include: Art in Odd Places, New York City, (2023 and 2024), Terminalia, Leeds, UK (2024), The Urban Emptiness Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus (2016); The First Night of Experimental Boredom, Dordrecht, Netherlands (2019); Walking as a Question, Prespa, Greece (2021 and 2023) and Artwalk Porty, Edinburgh (2020 and 2021).
Remote, collaborative, performative strategies are an important part of my artistic practice. I work regularly with New York-based artist Christopher Kaczmarek to create remote, film-based performative works. Our short film, 'Trace', was shortlisted recently for the Marsarto Global Walking Awards.