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Margaret Salmon (b. 1975) is a New York born multidisciplinary artist living and working in Glasgow. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at institutions including Secession, (2023), DCA (2018/19), Tramway (2018) Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2015); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA (2011); Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2007) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2007). Her work has been featured in film festivals and major international survey exhibitions, including the British Art Show 9 (2021/22), Glasgow International (2021), Berlin Biennale (2010) and Venice Biennale (2007) London Film Festival (2018, 2016, 2014).
History of the Present (2023), Mm (2017), Eglantine (2016), Bird (2016), Pyramid (single screen) (2014), Oyster (2014), Housework (2014), Gibraltar(2013), Colour Line (2011), study of man in truck based on the story John Told Me (2010), Times Square (2010), The Enemies of the Rose (2010), Hyde Park (2009), Rooms – East New Orleans (2008), Guns Trilogy (2008), Fireman (2008), M 2007 (2007), Ninna Nanna (2007), Ramapo Central (2003), Peggy (2003), M 2002 (2002), P.S. (shot 1998; completed 2002)
When freedom is at stake, who has the right to speak? Two films troubling the politics and poetics of language in public life; how it might be bent and shaped towards liberation of our individual and collective selves.
A speedway film night, including the world premiere screening of Mm, a BFMAF and Northern Film & Media commission commission by Margaret Salmon. Shot with the Berwick Bandits, Berwick-upon-Tweed’s own speedway heroes, Mm commemorates their 50th season and offers an imaginative take on the thrilling wold of this popular motorcycle sport.
