Short Biography
Jimmy Peggie is a Scottish-born, Arizona-based contemporary multidisciplinary artist working across sound, photography, moving image and installation.
His practice explores geological time, environmental memory, material transformation and impermanence through experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to artistic production.
An established figure within experimental sound and radio art, he is the founder of neonvox, an independent experimental arts label established in 1995, and co-founder of Sound Art Arizona.
His work engages with international conversations around contemporary sound art, environmental aesthetics and experimental media.
Extended Biography
Jimmy Peggie is a Scottish-born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Working across sound art, experimental composition, photography, moving image and installation, his practice investigates the relationship between time, environment, memory and material transformation.
His work explores the physical and perceptual dimensions of the natural and human-made world, with particular interests in geological processes, environmental sound, erosion, impermanence and the traces of disappearing environments.
Jimmy has an extensive background in experimental sound and radio art. Since 1995, he has developed neonvox as an independent platform for experimental sound and artistic production.Â
In 2018, he co-founded Sound Art Arizona, contributing to the development of an experimental sound-art community in Arizona.
His wider artistic practice continues to expand across interdisciplinary forms, bringing together sound, visual imagery, environmental observation and sonic experimentation.
Based in the American Southwest, Jimmy develops an international-facing practice informed by landscape, material history and the relationship between human experience and planetary time.