About

I am an artist-researcher and facilitator working across photography, collage, performance, and participatory practice. My work explores the body as a site of experience, memory, and communication, particularly in relation to trauma, movement, and non-verbal forms of expression. Using my body as both subject and material, I investigate how gesture, fragmentation, and reconstruction can reveal what is difficult to articulate through language alone. Facilitation and collaboration have become central to my practice. Through workshops, dialogue, and collective making, I create spaces for reflection, exchange, and accessibility, exploring how meaning is formed between bodies, materials, and people.

Education

Fine Art MA (Hons) – First Class
University of Edinburgh
2021 - 2026

A five-year degree that combines studio-based fine art practice with the academic study of art history.

Dissertation: Rethinking Relationality within the Climate Crisis: Contemporary Socially Engaged Art, Community Practice, and Institutional Context.

Awards

John Kinross Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy, 2026

Andrew Grant Bequest, Edinburgh College of Art, 2026

New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize Nominee, 2026

Work Experience

Creative Learning Artist
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
November 2025 to January 2026

Gallery Assistant & Workshop Organiser
SANKI Gallery, Edinburgh
October 2025 to February 2026

Graduate Show Event Assistant
Engagement and Communications
Team, Edinburgh College of Art
May 2026

Creative Activities Support
Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity
October 2024 to July 2026

Creative Programmes Volunteer
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
May 2025 to July 2026

Co-Curator
The Space Between Exhibition
ECA, University of Edinburgh
January 2025

Creative Director
Revel Event ECA, University of Edinburgh
May 2024

Exhibitions

2026
Body in Motion — Room Edition. Edinburgh College of Art Graduate Show, Edinburgh.
Crossing Point. MAFA Student Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.

2025
The Space Between. MAFA Student Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.
Flux. Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, Student Collective, Whitespace, Edinburgh.

2024
Inner Universe. MAFA Student Exhibition, Outline Gallery Space, Edinburgh.
Like Tiles in a Pool. Third-Year Student Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.
Gokotta, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.

2023
Body of Work. MAFA Student Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art Fire Station, Edinburgh.

Performaces
// Workshops

2026
Between Body, Mind and Earth. Handmade Journal Workshop, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. Workshop responding to the work of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
Between Body and Mind. Handmade Journal Workshop, Snake Gallery, Edinburgh. Workshop developed in response to The Carved Body exhibition.
Make a Mark. Collaborative workshop with Liv Davis, Crossing Point exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, February 2026. Potato-printing workshop.
Performer, The Conversational Playground: to twist, to tend, by artist Ella Crawford, Edinburgh College of Art

2025
Held Down by the Wind. Multimedia collaboration with artist Freya Glass and curator Rosie Hodgson Smith, Sanki Gallery, Edinburgh.

2024
The Body’s Narrative. Collaborative performance, Like Tiles in a Pool, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.

Publications
// Press

2026
The Scotsman, Edinburgh College of Art Graduate Show 2026 review: ‘thought and craft’, by Susan Mansfield

2025
FLUX, no. 3. Pendulum: The Contemporary Art Magazine, University of Edinburgh.
NeuroMuse, issue 1. Magazine cover collaboration, student-led publication.

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