John Wallace
Video Artist & Documentary Filmmaker

Views of publicly engaged art project "Cook Up the Castle!" - a celebration of the history of food and entertainment at MacLellan's Castle, a c17 fortified townhouse. Developed over 2022-2023 following extensive research and culminating in a free, public event on 3rd November 2023, the project was designed to help Historic Environment Scotland re-engage with the townspeople of Kirkcudbright following a long period of restricted access at the Castle.

One of five 'Balance in Nature' artist's films exploring different aspects of the ecosystem and ongoing restoration work at the NTS Threave Nature Reserve.

Views of the multi-screen environmental video art installation Scene Here, presented at National Trust for Scotland's Kelton Mains Nature reserve. Filmed over 14 months from spring 2020 until late summer 2021 as part of the Artful Migration series of artistic residencies, Scene Here was commissioned by Upland and Moving Souls Dance Company, and funded and supported by Creative Scotland, Moving Souls and the National Trust for Scotland.

How can we know the road space? A portrait of human experience at a single point on the road network at the instant of passing, automated to reflect the time of day through the use of traffic count data. Views of installation at RSA Edinburgh, November 2019.

Views from the premiere installation of The Same HIllside, presented by Cryptic Nights at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. For more information, please visit http://www.cryptic.org.uk/portfolio/hillside/

Views of 'Whose Hoose is This' - a web-enabled community video jukebox for Dumfries High Street. The work was populated with videos created by local artists and community groups as part of efforts to regenerate Dumfries High Street. For more information, visit

"Your one true broadcast..." A wee flavour of the Entropy Lure, as presented at Sanctuary Lab 2015 (www.sanctuary2015.org) in Galloway's Dark Skies Park, Scotland, 26/9/15. Created by artist John Wallace and professional thermographer Graham Rooney, the installation used two vintage Inframetrics 760 systems, plus a modern Flir 660 camera, to provide live video projections of Sanctuary punters - and whatever antics they were drawn to enact before the iridium coated lenses. With a live "Accidental Radio Waves" set by Thibault Autheman, re-used here by kind permission of the artist.

Views of Tweed-Sark Cinema as installed in Bank Hill Ice House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, for Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2014.