b. 1984, living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland.
My practice explores a variety of media including collage, text, installation and photography all which investigate issues surrounding our gendered identities, motherhood, power, money, control and vulnerability. My process is often autobiographical, exploring my own feelings toward my experiences of being woman, a single mother and an artist. With this exploration comes an investigation into our perceptions of the maternal role in art history and contemporary culture, the relationships between power and gender, and the pressures society places on us to 'succeed' in all its forms.
EDUCATION
- BA (HONS) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art London, 2010-2012
HND Contemporary Art Practice, Edinburgh College, 2008-2010
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
- Birth Rites Collection, Winner of BRC Collection Award 2018
An Artist Residency in Motherhood, August 2016 - 2018
Artist in Residence, Edinburgh College Feb-June 2014
EXPERIENCE
- Founder / Director at Spilt Milk Gallery 2018 - present, (www.spiltmilkgallery.com)
Edinburgh Collage Collective, Member, 2016 - present
Workshop Leader, The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, 2015
Guest Lecturer, Edinburgh College, 2014-2015
2-1-4-1 Artist collectiveE, Member 2013-2014
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
BIRTH RITES COLLECTION, Re-Launch and screening, Kings College London, 2018
THURSDAY LATES, Screening of Shortlisted work for the Birth Rites Collection Award, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2017
SEE YOU SOON, Epoch 8 Gallery, Edinburgh, 2017
100 Days Project, The Tent Gallery Edinburgh College of Art 2017
G.L.U.E. The Tent Gallery, 2017
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that, Lights of Soho London, October 2016
SECOND SELF, ARUSHA GALLERY EDINBURGH, AUGUST 2016
ART16 with Arusha Gallery London, 2016
SALONATHON, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, 2016
ART 15, Arusha Gallery, London 2015
MEETINGS OF WOMEN, Palazzo Albrizzi Venice 2015
RSA OPEN, Royal Scottish Academy, 2015
Site-Seeing, Solo Show at Creative Exchange Edinburgh, 2014
Draw-In, St Margarets House Edinburgh, 2014
Resurgence, The Galley Arts, Carlisle, 2014
2-1-4-1 Members Show, SWG3 Glasgow, 2013
Nonsense, O3 Gallery, Oxford, 2013
SHOW ONE Central Saint Martins Graduate Show 2012
Cabin Fever, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshops 2010
FEATURES / PUBLICATIONS
LA NUOVA, Venetian Newspaper, 2015
‘Oh Father Where Art Thou?, Essay for Collage Magazine ISSUE 3, 2013.
The Problem of the Maternal, Essay for Undercurrents Magazine, Issue 2, 2012.