CV

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   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