Zoe Paterson Macinnes is an artist and filmmaker from the Outer Hebrides working in identity and place, often through macro landscapes. Zoe has created an archive of cultural heritage work through films and interviews, working with communities to promote and sustain culture and heritage based arts. Her practice involves film, physical artwork and poetry, with a focus on the relationship between the sea, the land and its people.
Artist, filmmaker, islander.
About the artist
Zoe graduated from Edinburgh Napier with a BA (Hons) degree in Film in 2018. Since then, she has created an archive of film, artwork and poetry through the lens of heritage, identity and place.
Zoe’s documentary work has been screened nationally and internationally, with her shorts winning awards at festivals overseas and online. Her documentary Blackbird, a story on Lyme disease, features on the Lyme Disease UK charity website. The documentary short Cianalas was featured in various academic contexts and led Zoe to be the voice of the Scottish Island Survey run by the James Hutton Institute and the Scottish Government. She has been a speaker at the Islands Revival conference hosted by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye, and has screened work at the Blue Humanities Hands Across the Sea conference held in An Lanntair, Stornoway.
Zoe has worked with her local communities, arts centres and schools as a video editor and filmmaker. Her visual film work has been screened at Eden Court, Inverness; the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Portobello Art Walk festival, Edinburgh; and locally in the Outer Hebrides.
Photo by Siggy Stansfield