Hugh Watt: When Daylight has Fallen


Hugh Watt is a Northern Irish artist based in Glasgow. His internationally shown work is known for its evocative imagery centred on the mediums of film and video. Hugh Graduated form the Master of Fine Arts course at Glasgow School of Art in 1999 where he now teaches in the Electronic Media Studio.

Hugh is currently one of the UK artists to be included in the touring screening event, 'Figuring Landscapes', which tours the UK before going to Australia. Venues included, Tate Modern, London, Dundee Contemporary Arts, FACT, Liverpool, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. In August 2009 he created a site-specific installation for the, 15th International symposium on Electronic Arts, in Belfast.

For switch 2009 Hugh will make a site-specific work, When Daylight has Fallen, which extends his interest in artworks, which are spun out of the fabric of the site where they are shown. For one night Watt will place a camera in an unoccupied shop front on the main street in Nenagh and film a series of 360 degree recordings. Punctuated by the ambient stillness of the vacated premises, a space in waiting, the camera with monitor activity on the street outside as people make there way between public and private spaces. Connecting scientific enquiry with humour and visual poetics, played back at high speed, the projected image makes visible aspects of human behaviour, which in real time remain invisible to the naked eye.

[] back [] work in situ [] Hugh Watt is based in Glasgow, Scotland.