SELECTED WORKSHOPS, PROJECTS & EVENTS
2023- Present, Participatory Artist, Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh Member of the freelance creative learning team, working with audiences to make art inspired by nature.
2020- Present, Mentoring & Careers Advice, for Emerging Artists & Students Creative Edinburgh, Queen Margaret University, Glasgow Connected Arts Network, Neuk Collective.
2018-Present, Artist Educator, V&A Dundee
A mix of formal and informal education projects at Scotlands design museum.
2012-Present, Production Manager & Volunteer Co-ordinator, Curated Place Developing and producing national and international arts events and festivals.
2005-Present, Historic Environment Scotland, historic sites across Scotland
Schools sessions, early years, adult projects & family drop-in workshops.
2020-2021, Lantern Journeys, Silverburn Park, Fife Working remotely with 200 households & 150 school children to create 3 light installations.
2020 The Phoenix Project, NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Instructional video, activity sheet and online workshops for adults, focusing on mental wellbeing.
2012-2020, Primary Schools Workshops, East Lothian Council
Subjects include ceramics, textiles, cyanotypes & soap carving.
2020 Postcards from the Plot, Boundary Way, Wolverhampton Anthotype, alternative photography project. Research & development. Commissioned to make a film of my findings and deliver an online workshop.
2019 Púca Festival, County Meath, Ireland Created two large scale fire drawings for the opening of a Halloween festival.
2019 Orkney Science Festival Art meets science. Schools and public workshops across the remote islands.
2019 Collective Play, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh Family drop-in workshops exploring clay and play.
2019 Pyramid, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Event to build a giant pyramid to celebrate the new Ancient Egypt gallery.
2019 Family Craft Workshops, National Trust for Scotland Drop-in “make & take” workshops at Culross Palace & Alloa Tower.
2018–2019 SmART Thinking Schools, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Project with 95 pupils to create ceramics and light art for an exhibition.
2016, 2017, 2019 Abu Dhabi Science Festival Managing and delivering creative science workshops for school groups and families.
2012, 2013, 2017, 2018 Manager, Easter Festivals, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Developing and managing Kew’s Easter holiday arts festivals for families.
2015-2018 Production Manager & Artist, Spectra Festival of Light, Aberdeen
Producing an award winning 4 day light festival over 5 sites across the city.
2008 –2017 Ceramics Tutor, City of Edinburgh Council
Teaching adult education classes at three schools across the city.
2017 Knitting the Rainbow Garden, North Light Arts, Dunbar
Series of craft and creative gardening workshops at a community garden.
2018 John Grant’s North Atlantic Flux, UK City of Culture, Hull
Production manager at a Nordic themed music festival.
2016 Cycle Music & Art Festival, Kópavogur, Iceland
Production manager at a festival of contemporary art and experimental music.
2016 Fresh Fruit, The Fruitmarket Gallery/Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Ceramics project with young adults, including a paper kiln firing event.
2016 Production Manager, Keyframes, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
Working with French artists Groupe Laps to create a major light installation.
2015 & 2017 Enlighten Festival of Light & Sound Art, Manchester
Community engagement workshops, and production management.
2015 Illuminating Geometry Workshops, Edinburgh Science Festival
LED geometric lantern making workshops with Jenny Dockett.
2013 –2015 Community Gardening Projects, The Fife Diet
Engaging with community groups to artistically transform their outdoor spaces.
2013 Dig the City, Urban Gardening Festival, Manchester
Assisting New York artist Jason Hackenwerth in the creation of a series of monumental, botanically inspired balloon sculptures.
2013 Urban Jungle, Serenity Café, Edinburgh
Community hub for adults in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
Running workshops with Serenity members to brighten up their café garden.
2012 Fire Drawing Leader, Rama & Sita Production, Edinburgh Mela
Working with creative pyrotechnic events company Walk the Plank. Facilitating a group of teenage volunteers to create two impressive large-scale fire drawings.
2012 Walk Leader, NVA’s Speed of Light, Edinburgh International Festival
Under the cover of darkness, guiding audience members to the top of iconic hill Arthur’s Seat. A fusion of innovative public art and sporting endeavour.
2012 Cooperatives United World Festival, Manchester
Environmental education workshops to create origami wind turbines.
2010 & 2012 Banner making projects, Comas, Edinburgh
Textile projects with adults in recovery from drug and alcohol dependency.
2010 Act Against Harm, Mayfield Assessment & Treatment Unit, Dunfermline, Fife
Creating a textile banner with groups of learning disabled adult patients.
2010 Film Making Workshops, Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh
Set design and make-up workshops for children.
2009 Gallery Education Programme, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Series of gallery & schools workshops for a contemporary art gallery.
2006 & 2008 Scrap Art Workshops, Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy
Series of schools workshops in the National Galleries of Scotland.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS
2024 Enchanted By The Unicorn, Perth Art Gallery 2023 Lanterns & Light, Chester Zoo, Cheshire 2023 Makers Offerings, Applied Arts Scotland, Custom Lane, Edinburgh 2022 |MATTER| Earth, Materials + Making, The Barn, Banchory 2021 Spindrift light installation, The Mound, Edinburgh's Christmas 2021 Lantern Journeys, Light installation, Silverburn Park, Leven, Fife 2019 Púca Festival, County Meath, Ireland 2019 100 Days, Old Fire Station, Edinburgh 2019 Do You Really Know Us?, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 2018 Parabola 2, Spectra Festival of Light, Aberdeen
2017 Parabola, Enlighten Festival of Light & Sound Art, Greater Manchester
2017 Parabola, Spectra Festival of Light, Aberdeen 2016 Linguistics in Light, Spectra Festival of Light, Aberdeen
2015 Knit One Burn One, Spectra Festival of Light, Aberdeen
2012 & 13 Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh
2012 Triptych, Edinburgh Castle
2012 Wild Woods Day, Hockley Woods, Essex
2012 Rama & Sita, Fire drawings, Edinburgh Mela
2011 Act Against Harm, Kingdom Centre, Glenrothes, Fife
2010 Craft Scotland, Edinburgh
2010 Essex Street Diversions, Chelmsford
2008-9 The Postcard Show, The Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2007-8 Gifted, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
2006 Nature Nonsense, Artspace, Edinburgh
2005 A Place of Sense, Prestongrange Museum, East Lothian
2004 10x4, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland Isles
2002 At Home, The Booth, Shetland Isles
2001 Paperclay Plus, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews
2000 The Green Gallery, Elsfield, Oxfordshire
1999 Colour and Light, The Beetroot Tree Gallery, Derbyshire
1999 Top Drawer, Earl’s Court, London
1999 Design Worker’s Guild, Porch House Gallery, Shrewsbury
1999 Enter Art, Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston, West Midlands
1998 Hebden Bridge Sculpture Trail, West Yorkshire
1998 Art in the Park, West Park, Wolverhampton
1997 Art in Clay, National Ceramics Festival, Hertfordshire
1996 Grave Goods, Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews
AWARDS
2022 A-N Time Space Money Bursary Project with sustainability collective Closing The Loop.
2022 VACMA -Visual Art & Craft Maker Award Funding to undertake a period of study in alternative photography techniques.
2020 Creative Scotland Youth Arts Funding Funding for 3 craftivism projects, working with young people to give them an opportunity to express their thoughts during the pandemic.
2012 Sparks will Fly, Hockley Woods, Essex
Awarded funding to work with an Essex community as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Created a large- scale ceramic outdoor kiln & spectacle.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & COLLECTIVES
AIR - Artists’ Interaction & Representation
Applied Arts Scotland The Artists’ Bond
Closing The Loop -Sustainability Research Group Cove Park Associates Creative Edinburgh
RESIDENCIES
2023 Artist in Residence, The Old Olive Mill, Pano Lefkara, Cyprus Exploring traditional crafts, sustainability, regenerative materials & processes.
2023 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Creating a series of endangered animal themed light sculptures, for production company Culture Creative.
2019 & 2022 Artist in Residence, Cove Park, Argyll & Bute Two residencies which combined working with the local community and time to develop my practice.
2022 Closing The Loop Research Group, Hospitalfield, Angus Micro residency, focussing on collaboration, experimentation, play and sustainability.
2020 Virtual Artist in Residence, Penn Fields School Working with a SEN class to connect with nature. Creative challenges were set, using Zoom & pre-recorded videos.
2018 Spectra Schools Residency, Aberdeen City Council
Working with 270 pupils, combining maths and design to create a light installation.
2017 Artist in Residence, Artwork Atelier, Salford
Producing a series of UV sculptures to be toured to various light festivals.
2012 Artist in Residence, Hockley Woods, Essex Work with an Essex community to create a large- scale ceramic outdoor kiln & outdoor firing spectacle.
2006 Artist in Residence, Craigmillar Castle Park, Edinburgh
Summer arts programme to encourage community enjoyment of urban woodlands.
2002 Artist in Residence, The Booth, Shetland Isles
Created work from scrap materials, to coincide with the islands’annual community beach clean. Environmental art and craft workshops for children and adults.
1999 Artist in Residence, All Saints Women’s Resource Centre, Wolverhampton
10 year anniversary monument. Art and craft workshops for an adult group.
1999 Artist in Residence, Groundwork, West Midlands
Community art workshops for an environmental charity, focusing on urban regeneration.
PUBLICATIONS
My work has been featured in several art and craft books.
