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

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

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

June 2017 – Shetland Amenity Trust, Bressay Lighthouse, Shetland

Jan 2013 – WASPS @ The Booth, Shetland