I am Richard Dalgleish. I am a Scottish artist from Edinburgh. I studied Physics before a career in Financial IT, then slowly shifted away from science and technology towards artistic expression, although, as there a huge overlap between science and art, I haven’t burned my computer just yet and make use of digital as well as analogue tools to capture and manipulate my work. I studied Photography at the distance learning institution, Open College of the Arts.

During my study I experienced a period of traumatic grief with the death of my daughter to cancer which set the direction of my research and creative interests. My art is centred around photography which I use to complement my research and creative endeavours. I am interested in death studies, loss and grief, memory, family history and the forgotten. My creative works attempt to present a representation of the time and space surrounding death which has been an inescapable theme throughout the history of art.

For more information on my practice please see my Artist Statement