Seminary (2012) was created from video and sound recordings from the ruin of St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross (Argyll), one of Scotland’s best examples of Brutalist architecture and one of Europe’s greatest Modernist buildings.

Built by the Scottish Catholic Church in 1964 as a school and retreat for their trainee priests the building functioned for under twenty years and has since been left to slowly decay into the surrounding Kilmahew woodland. This work is a two screen installation which features new footage of the ruin captured by David Jack alongside a mute video from the opening of St Peter’s Seminary which was found in the Scottish Screen Archive. I composed the electroacoustic sound track and edited and montaged the final video sequence.

With kind thanks to: NVA, The Scottish Screen Archive, David Jack (film), John Levack Drever, James Bulley, Kathrine Sandys.