Bio
Born in London in 1975. Lives in Edinburgh with a studio at Abbeymount
Education
2013 Edinburgh College of Art, BA (Hons.) Painting
1998 University of Liverpool, BA (Hons.) German with Dutch
Public Projects / Commissions
2022 Memoirs of a Spacewoman, commission with the Clyde Fishermen's Trust and Wasps Studios as part of Scotland's Year of Stories
2020 Gatherings, Artwalk Porty, Edinburgh
2019 Waypoints, Machrihanish Airbase, Argyll (part of the Architecture Fringe)
2019 Eponymous, Artwalk Porty, Edinburgh
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Incremental, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 Spectrums, The Briggait, Glasgow
2018 Perimeters, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
2017 Sea Marks, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 New Work, Fine Art Library, Edinburgh
2014 Typology, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen
2013 Shed 8, Port Edgar Marina, South Queensferry
2012 Solo show, Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Through Line, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2024 International Women's Day Auction, Art on a Postcard, The Bomb Factory, London
2023 Journey, Edinburgh Printmakers
2023 Wasps x Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbright Galleries
2022 tunglið tunglið taktu mig, SÍM Hlöðuloftið, Reykjavik
2022 Beyond Boundaries, Tatha Gallery
2022 Parallel, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
2021 RSA Annual Exhibition: Open 2021, Royal Scottish Academy (online)
2021 Adjust / Adapt, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (online)
2020 Reduct, Royal Scottish Academy
2020 Utopia, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, and Kirkcudbright Galleries
2019 The Fragile Ocean, St John on Bethnal Green, London
2019 Artists in the Field, Royal Geographical Society, London
2019 The Factory, Djúpavík, Iceland
2019 Utopias, Upper Church Summerhall, Edinburgh (Syn Festival, invited artist)
2018 Socius18, DOK Artist Space, Leith
2018 Current, Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay (Visual Arts Scotland Members' Show)
2018 Nes Alumni Exhibition, Akureyri Summer Arts Festival, Iceland
2018 Limited Edition, Edinburgh Printmakers
2017 Macmillan Art Show, Bonhams, Edinburgh (invited artist)
2017 Opið Hús, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2016 Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Show, Mall Galleries, London
2016 Confined Spaces, Old Gaol and Police Station, Campbeltown
2015 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2015 Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh
2014 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
2013 Afterword: Contemporary Responses to Peploe, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Collections
Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, University of Edinburgh
School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Residencies & Awards
2024 Creative Scotland Open Fund
2024 Hope Scott Trust, Visual Arts Award
2022 SÍM (The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists) – funded by Creative Scotland through VACMA
2019 Sail Britain Wild Islands Residency
2017 Nes artists residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2017 Cove Park (subsidised, self-funded winter residency)
2015 Lacawac field station, Pennsylvania
2013/14 Port Edgar Marina, South Queensferry
2013 MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
Workshops
2022 Clyde Fishermen's Trust / Wasps Studios (part of Scotland's Year of Stories)
2017 FNV College of North West Iceland
2016 Argyll & Bute Council
Memberships
Society of Scottish Artists
Scottish Contemporary Art Network
Scottish Artists Union
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