Seona Myerscough is currently part of the City & Guilds School of Art MA part time programme, Year 2.

She was previously part of the Mass Studio Programme at Thames-Side Studios, Woolwich, London SE18 5NR for 2022/23.

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

Seona is an artist who utilises objects she has made and found objects to communicate ideas and outcomes. This can be in various formats such as by live presentation, video, and documentation.

Seona is in the process of developing a Time Machine, and recording and evidencing her findings. The latest version is the ChronoportSM3, a dynamic, portable Time Machine.

The portable Time Machine has been in development for the last three years.

At the heart of her work is a desire to explore time, memory, identity and mortality through both deeply personal and universally resonant forms, she uses her own body and fragments of it, such as eyes, mouths, hands and ears as both material and metaphor. These visual elements operate as markers of presence, tools for communication, and symbols of the passage of time and change.

Autobiographical elements underpin much of her practice. Through storytelling, ritual, costume, and invented devices, she seeks to extend the fleeting experience of her own existence not to monumentalise it, but to reflect on its absurdity and its insignificance. She is interested in what it means to be here now, and how we hold onto what is already disappearing.

Her aesthetic is deliberately handmade, awkward and shonky. Seona embraces imperfection, humour, failure and repetition as core methodologies.

Influenced by clowning, she uses comic actions 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: she accept that life has no inherent meaning, but finds liberation in that.

Seona is drawn to contradiction and paradox:


– Optimism and nihilism
– Humour and pathos
– The provisional and the precise
– Truth and invention


Seona’s practice is an attempt to hold these tensions, not resolve them ,to invite others into a space where the handmade and the impossible, the comic and the serious, can coexist.

Time Travel enables you to consider the human condition from a different perspective. At present time travel is only available to Seona in her own lifespan, she chooses deliberately only to travel to her past, as the future settings are unstable and risky.

A positive by-product of the time travel was that it recently enabled her to make the incorporeal physical, in the form of Fruiting Bodies which were exhibited in Scarborough at The Old Parcels Office during April 2025.

May 2025