Seona Myerscough completed the City & Guilds School of Art MA programme in September 2025.

She was previously part of the Mass Studio Programme at Thames-Side Studios, Woolwich (2022/23).

Seona is a member of Changeable Beast, a group of artists formed through current and past involvement with MASS.

Seona has been developing a portable Time Machine over the last three years. Its construction, testing and associated training exercises have been documented as part of her work.

A significant disruption to the space-time continuum has occurred. The Time Traveller has not returned to her original timeline. What remains in the present is an AI avatar and a body of partial records, artefacts and recordings.

Ongoing efforts to locate the Time Traveller have led to a shift in approach. Rather than attempting direct travel, the work now focuses on the detection and interpretation of temporal fragments.

Recent developments include the Wormhole Detector and related transceiver devices, designed to locate fragments of the past and future. These instruments use improvised sensory components and unstable structures, producing intermittent and often unreliable information. This material is used to assist in the location, or understanding, of the Time Traveller, and to navigate the present.

At the heart of her work is a desire to explore time, memory, identity and mortality. She uses her own body and fragments of it—eyes, mouths, hands and ears—as both material and metaphor. These elements operate as markers of presence, tools for communication, and signals within a wider temporal system.

Autobiographical elements underpin much of her practice. Through storytelling, costume and constructed devices, she attempts to extend and reconfigure lived experience, reflecting on its instability, absurdity and limits.

Her aesthetic is deliberately handmade, awkward and shonky. She embraces imperfection, humour, failure and accident as core methodologies. Devices appear functional, but remain provisional.

Influenced by clowning, she uses repetition, misdirection and improvised problem-solving to explore existential concerns—particularly the limits of time, the unreliability of memory, and the inevitability of loss.

Seona’s philosophical position aligns with optimistic nihilism: life has no inherent meaning, but meaning can be constructed within that condition.

Her work is drawn to contradiction and paradox:
– optimism and nihilism
– humour and pathos
– the provisional and the precise
– truth and invention

Her practice does not resolve these tensions, but holds them in place, creating a space where the handmade and the impossible, the comic and the serious, can coexist.