Alasdair Asmussen Doyle

Alasdair Asmussen Doyle’s practice employs moving-image  and filmic heritage to navigate multiple relations of physical places  and films. Combining contemporary theories of landscape with early  shooting instruments, the artist creates works that negotiate hybrid  geographical positions. In drawing upon narratives that span time and  place, his films and installations conceptualise spaces as fragmented  and in continual flux.

Concurrent projects are partly informed by his  experience as an Australian inhabiting another island on the other side  of the globe. These seek to address potentialities of dislocation and  duality — a being here and there in place —, and include, ‘Saw in half’,  a project documenting  the translation of botanical material and  knowledge between Malahide, Tasmania and Malahide, Ireland, ‘The Other  Island’, a series of works centered on the colony of wallabies that  inhabit the Isle of Man, ‘Where I Am Not’, an expedition inspired by  reaching the point opposite the artist’s birthplace, and ‘Into the  silent sea’, a project charting St. Kilda’s lineage on the other side of  the world.

Alasdair lives and works between Belfast and Brussels, where he is currently undertaking a PhD at the Belfast School of Art, in partnership with aemi (Dublin).