John Wallace
Video Artist & Documentary Filmmaker

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.

A film looking at the history of town-centre depopulation and efforts by arts collective The Stove to stem High Street decline in Dumfries (trailer).

The netsmen of the inner Solway estuary fish with hand held viking 'haaf' nets and 'poke' and 'stake' nets fixed to the sea bed. The fishery once supported dozens of families. Today, a dwindling band of men keep the ancient skills alive. Follow their struggle against the elements in pursuit of their most prized catch - the North Atlantic salmon.