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Dorrie Halliday

Dorrie Halliday is a digital artist working with both traditional media and new technologies. During her career she has experimented with her artistic skills and utilised a variety of technology and methods including: wearable sculpture, digital image manipulation, animation, installation and other professional film production techniques such as camera work and digital video editing.
These skills have helped her to produce artwork for many different types of exhibitions and projects.
Dorrie uses many forms of digital manipulation, as a modern storytelling medium, so she is able to interpret the myths and legends from her rural background and make them relevant to the urban landscape she now lives within.
The theme that runs strongly through her work is a dark surrealism combined with subtle humour.
Dorrie also worked as a freelance education project co-ordinator for universities, museums such as the Tate and the Whitworth Manchester, and with many schools, giving National Curriculum subjects new life through the union of art and technology.
One of her workshops for the 'Science and Industry Museum' in Manchester won an award from the Gulbenkian Foundation for the 'Most Imaginative Educational Workshop' in 1998.

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