Sound and kinetic work
Born 1982, lives in Glasgow
Builds machines that move and make sound, from brass clocks that keep no time to a giant horn that plays a street.
Elliot Marsh builds machines that move and make sound. He was a bicycle mechanic in Glasgow for ten years before he showed anything in a gallery, and he still repairs bikes one day a week.
His workshop is full of station clocks, old radios and parts he finds in skips. Every work he makes is still running: the clocks tick, the motors turn, and the sound pieces play live from somewhere else.
He thinks of time as a material, something you can bend, slow down or send across a city. Clock for Nobody runs one hand for a second and the other for sixty years. Field Recording, Nørrebro sends a street in Copenhagen to the gallery a second after it happens.
He is in Copenhagen every spring to service his works in the collection, and he leaves the gallery tidier than he found it.
- Born
- 1982
- Lives in
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Practice
- Sound and kinetic work
- Works
- 2
- First acquired
- 2021
In the collection
Works
By Elliot Marsh
