Artist Statement
The landscape is marked by processes, materials and energies we often do not recognise but which take millennia to form and have within them a timeless quality. My approach is poetic in nature searching out fragile marks and patterns from within these spaces and our connection to them. Peat sourced from a cottage dig can be used to show the changing values we place on bog-lands due to climate change or it can be used to contrast with other materials such as salt or ash to highlight climatic changes now happening in certain landscapes
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Goldsmiths College; Introduction to Field Recording and Soundscape 2020
Goldsmith College; Poetry Form and Feeling 2020
Book Love; Making simple artist’s books 2020
Edinburgh University COL Studies Dynamics of Landscape
Edinburgh University; PGDE Teaching Art & Design – 2008/9
Wimbledon School of Art, London; Postgraduate Diploma in Drawing – 2001/03
Edinburgh College of Art; BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting – 1997/2001
BSc Information Technology; Open University – 1989/96
EXHIBITIONS
2023 – “There is Something in the Way”; Summerhall, Edinburgh, Group Wall Exhibition
2023 – “Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition (AIMPE)”; Awagami Factory,
Tokushima, Japan
2023 – “Amplify”; Academy of Fife Arts, Wellington, New Zealand
2023 – “Pushing Paper”; Bobcat Gallery, London, Group Exhibition
2023 – “WEST”; Visual Arts Scotland, Graduate Showcase & Member’s Exhibition
2023 – “Alchemical”; Gallery 457, London, Group Exhibition
2022 – “Kinship”; Edinburgh Printmakers, Member’s Exhibition
2022 – “Passage”; Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan. Solo Exhibition
2022 – “Solace”; Edinburgh Printmakers. Group Exhibition
2022 – Macmillan Art Show; Group Exhibition Invited Artist
2021- “Extraordinary Plumbago”; Art and it’s Afterlives, Bournemouth University. Invited Artist
2021 – “Fugitive Materials”; Art and it’s Afterlives. Invited Artist
2021 – “Would you trust a stranger with your artwork?” Art and it’s Afterlives. Invited Artist
2020 – “Set in Stone”; 44AD Gallery Bath. Group Exhibition
2020 – “Elevate”; ArtCan, The Shard, London. Group Exhibition
2019 – “Encounters”; D-Contemporary Gallery, London. Group Exhibition
2016 – “W Gordon Smith Painting Competition”; Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh; Selected Artist
2016 – “Open”; RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) Edinburgh. Group Exhibition
2016 – An Talla Solais, Ullapool; Work Showcased within a Group Exhibition
2016 – WITP (What Is The Point – artist member) Strand Gallery, London
2016 – Pentland Fine Art, Aberdeen. Group Exhibition
2016 – The Other Art Fair, Bristol
2015 – “Open”; RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) Edinburgh. Group Exhibition
2015 – Edinburgh Drawing School. Group Exhibition
2015 – Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh. Group Exhibition
AWARDS
2022 – Creative Scotland VACMA Award
2020 – Creative Scotland VACMA Award
2020 – Hope Scott Trust Award
PUBLICATIONS
2023 – Pushing the Boat Out; Issue 17
2021 – Lallans the Scots Language Society; issue 99
2020/21 – Lucent Dreaming; issues 9 and 10
2020 – Fly on the Wall Press; issue 8
2020 – Bold Types poetry competition (online publication)
2014 – The State of Art: Landscape and Portrait, Vol 1; Bare Hill Publishing
2013 – The State of Art: Representational and Abstract, Vol 1; Bare Hill Publishing
RESIDENCIES
Sept 2023 – Scalpay Residency, Outer Hebrides
June 2017 – Shetland Amenity Trust, Bressay Lighthouse, Shetland
Jan 2013 – WASPS @ The Booth, Shetland