James Alexander McKenzie’s work encompasses painting, poetry, performance art, installation, spoken word and theatre. Drawing from an expansive pool of source material that includes personal experiences, his methodology is characterised by intuition and spontaneity. In his avant-garde stage-act performances, which is the prevailing manifestation of his practice, he blends theatre, poetry, spoken word and stand-up. Dry humour; parody; absurdity: these are trademarks of his writing and performance work. McKenzie has been the recipient of several awards and has exhibited his work widely in Scotland. He is featured in several private and public collections. He graduated from Dundee University in 2017 and studied for a period at Goldsmiths University between 2021 and 2022.
Daniel O’Dempsey is an exuberant character interested in the pursuit of storytelling. Using his multifaceted creative practice as a canoe shaped vessel he navigates rivers and valleys as he rallies in the world around. O’Dempsey invites people in by expressing conversation through whatever means his impulses deem necessary. He thrives on collaboration. Often there is a running social commentary of some form at play in his work inspired by his own experience and maintains an element of mindful
meditation that is naturally ingrained within his process of making. O’Dempsey is spontaneous and childlike, he reflects and celebrates the simple fact of being alive, building on this foundation using lego bricks and bamboo sticks. O’Dempsey has received awards as an artist and a producer, both in Scotland and England and has artwork in several private collections. O’Dempsey graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2018 and is a director for Liverpool’s largest artist-led studios, The Royal Standard.
