Hello! My name is Mhairi and this is my art...​ The themes of my work tend to focus on natural world spectacles and human social phenomena. I am hugely influenced by the natural world and industrial areas. Growing up in towns, villages and cities across Scotland and beyond, I spent a lot of my time working with animals and exploring the outdoors. From sea caves on pebble beaches to thick forests and woodland tracks, industrial wasteground and the edge of cities, I still keep finding new places to venture to. The social constructs that surround and influence our daily life and how they are readily accepted by people also interest me and so I have found myself gravitating towards subjects like community, society and how peope navigate through their environment. The form my work takes is typically that of photography, video installation and mixed media. Exploring photography in both film and digital formats, I have been using old film camera lenses to create a dreamy, etherial feel to my images. I have been utilising stop motion as an integral part of my video installations, bringing the traditional paper animation technique together with a digital means of recording and projecting videos.

My name is Mhairi Muir.  

I am a single mother, an artist and photographer.  

I am obsessed with fractals, the golden ratio, growth and sequence.  From genetic sequences to the visual patterns we are surrounded by in nature.  

I became more and more fascinated with sequences as I have grown older and now have a child of my own.  DNA is a fascinating thing to behold, and a wonderful example of sequence.  

Sequence, pattern and growth have become a vital part of my art practice.