This exhibition comprised of three interrelated bodies of work - an animation, wall-based photographic portraits, and a constructed installation with DVD projection. In gallery 1, the four sections of ‘A Series of Little Crises’ were shown on separate monitors. It is a light surrealist story of an average dandelion family who encounter a number of familiar problems around the four separate issues of Love, Laughter, Financial Worries and Pissing the Bed. Characters fashioned from live dandelions and animated in a natural and ever changing light source, convey a sweetness, which belies the seriousness of the predicaments they face. These short abstract episodes play as continuous loops.

The house, a neat cubic construction sits in the centre of gallery 2, and a series of large scale photographic portraits occupied the wall spaces around it. A structure, which the viewer could walk around the outside of, whilst projected images are viewable through a small window on one side. The canvas house contains the images of a doorway engulfed in flames, opening of it's own accord to reveal a drizzly mountainous backdrop.

Around the house the members of a generic family gaze back at this scene impassively. Entitled simply - My Mother, My Father, My Daughter, and My Son, each sitter is framed as a simple head and shoulder portrait with a small bunch of flowers protruding from their mouth. Perhaps they would offer some words of explanation or reconciliation if only they could express themselves.



Come To My House focused on the complexities of communication within the family unit, while the house at the heart of this work, and the incident of arson described in the DVD projection, form a central lynch pin to the theme.

A specially produced minigraph was available with an article by Louise Crawford.

Gillian Steel studied at Glasgow School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone where she completed a post-grad in Television Imaging.

Artists Statement:
In the past my work has involved a mix of digital imaging and archaic hand processed super 8mm or 16mm film. Now I work more within the realms of digital technology, a mix of DV and traditional stills photography. These processes converge towards end products which take the form of single or multi screen projection works for installation (usually with sound) and photographic works, some of which are large scale.

A slideshow selection of the exhibition in situ: