I’m a visual artist and photographer working from my Leith Studio at Out of the Blue Drill Hall.
I’m a member of Neuk Collective, Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland.
I play with digital and analogue photography, alternative processing techniques, collage, printing, video, poetry, writing, mixed media along with creating installation pieces. My work is how I process big feelings of all kinds, ponder all the human things like love, desire, grief, death and autonomy, often focussing on connection - to self, to creative energy, to nature and through collaboration.
Creative play has helped me process medical trauma from Crohn’s Disease and Poland Syndrome, past abusive relationships and my neurodivergence. It is magic in the mundane, it’s keeping yer childlike wonder as the world burns.
I love spending time in galleries full of torturously tactile paintings we aren’t allowed to touch, I collect art books and biographies, I love music but lack the patience and discipline to learn an instrument so I use visual art to express my songs. I often reference my past life in the Scottish music industry as it was quite the time to be alive. My photography is inspired by the shoreline at home, the beachy tones, ever changing weather and wide horizon - a reminder to be in the moment when I tend to overthink.
ARTIST
VISUAL ART PROJECTS
ART SHOWS, COMMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS
The Thread That Pulls, curated by Visual Arts Scotland. Biennial exhibition at Royal Scottish Academy, National Galleries of Scotland at The Mound, 5 Dec 25-2 Jan 26
Leith Creative Trail, video installation commission by Away Industries, running from 29 November 25.
STOP, group show curated by Amy Oliver, The House of Smalls Gallery, Stockbridge, 22 November -20 December 25
ROLL THE DICE, video installation with Ailsa Lochhead, commissioned by Art Walk Porty, funded by Creative Scotland, Sept 25
Art House 14, with Ailsa Lochhead, mixed media collage and cyanotype exhibition for Art Walk Porty, Sept 25
Kaleidoscope, curated by Dan Murray. Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Apr 25
My Body Whose Choice? curated by Hello Art. Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Leith. Nov 24
HOME; a residents’ showcase, group exhibition curated by Solen Collet, Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Leith. Sept 24
Art House 8, Portobello Art Walk, solo show curated by Solen Collet, Portobello. Sept 24
Nature, curated and hosted by The Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Aug 24
Summer Show, curated and hosted by Fox Yard Studio, Stowbridge, Jul 24
MUSE, curated and hosted by Fox Yard Studio, Stowbridge. Jun 24
Onlne feature on The Mix, invited and curated by Zya Community. Jun 24
30th birthday showcase for Out of the Blue Arts, curated by Out of the Blue Arts, at Drill Hall, Leith. May 24
Rolling it Back, group photography exhibition curated by Page Hardie, Sett Studios, Leith. Apr 24
Spring Pop Up, a group residents’ exhibition, curated by Felicity Inkpen at The Drill Hall, Mar 24
NOW LOVE, solo show curated by Solen, Agitate Edinburgh. Feb-Mar 24
A Closer Look, group residents’ exhibition curated by Aoife in Leith, Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Oct 23
2 page feature in Issue 2 of The Delicate Rebellion print magazine, published June 2021
If She Could She Would, online group exhibition, hosted and curated by Split Milk Gallery. Dec 20-Jan 21.
HAVE CAMERAS.
WILL TRAVEL.
“Stunning work. Bare, vulnerable, delicate, beautiful. Thank you.”
ROLL THE DICE - a collaborative video installation in a wooden arcade console, commissioned by Art Walk Porty in conjunction with Nobles Amusements, funded by Creative Scotland. Showing at Visual Art Scotland RSA show, The Thread That Pulls, Dec 25-Jan 26.