EDUCATION

BA HONOURS CONTEMPORARY ART AND CONTEXTUALISED PRACTICE (First Class) Inverness College, University of the Highlands and Islands

HND THEATRE DESIGN (Distinction) Northbrook College, West Sussex

COMMISSIONS

CURRENT – BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA, Chapter 2 – Riff Raff Theatre Company. Co-designer, Set & Costume for a community production in February 2025.

JUNE/JULY 2024 – VOICES AND CHOICES – Future landscape Vision Piece- Cairngorm National Park Authority 2030 Project & Tormore Estate. Interpretive art work for Speyside High School visualising the voice of S1-3 pupils looking at future land management choices for Tormore Estate. The piece depicts outcomes of community engagement workshops.

SEPT/OCT/NOV 2023 – MEND WITH A FRIEND PROJECT – Pilot project. Funded through the Cairngorms Trust– Design and delivery of a series of ‘Meet, Mend & Make’ workshops teaching mending skills to rural communities within the Cairngorms National Park. Design and distribution of a mending pack to encourage participants to share the skills learnt at the workshops with others. Focus was on wellbeing in dark winter months, skill sharing to increase confidence to repair at home. Encouraging small repeated local actions that have an accumulative global impact on reducing carbon emissions.

AUGUST 2023 – PEACE AT THE HEART – Quaker Community (North) – Children’s summer residential workshops.

JUNE 2023- BEAVER KIT MODEL – Cairngorm National Park Authority. Felted model for beaver reintroduction project public engagement.

JAN 2023 – APRIL 2023 – THE WILD ESCAPE– Inverness Museum & Art Gallery and Highland Folk Museum. Collaborative project with museum staff and Highlife Highland Ranger Service. Community engagement workshops with 3 schools as part of the uk wide Wild Escape. The project coincided with the release of the BBC’s Wild isles series and aimed to connect young people to nature through museum collections and look at climate change impacts on environment.

AUGUST 2022- ASTRAL STARSCAPE– Walk the Plank’s Unboxed UK Creativity celebrations, Green Space Dark Skies, Cairngorms and Orkney films. Backdrop for Miroshot’s VR immersive experience. Part of a series of nationwide films to be screened on BBC’s ‘Countryfile’ autumn 2022.

JULY / AUGUST 2022 – STAR SAILS AND KITE WORKSHOP – Walk the Plank’s Unboxed UK Creativity celebrations, Green Space Dark Skies, Cairngorms film. Community engagement and art workshops to create kites and ‘Star Sails’ for a boat installation. Part of a large scale public light artwork and series of nationwide films to be screened on BBC’s ‘Countryfile’ autumn 2022.

JUNE 2021 – BIRCH WOOD MURAL- Alvie Primary School, Kincraig. Improving the school grounds and providing trees for P7 leavers to make their mark.

SEPTEMBER 2020 – MARCH 2023 – WALLS FOR WELLBEING, The Bank House, Grantown-on Spey. Design and paint a series of 12 period style murals for listed building renovation. 

AUGUST 2020 – THE BACK ROAD HOME, London Edinburgh Holdings. Design and paint grisaille Tree of Life mural in celebration of nature.

FEBRUARY – MARCH 2019 – FROM THE CALDER TO THE SPEY, Newtonmore Business Association & Cairngorm National Park Authority. Design commission tender for Public Art Installation in the village square in consultation with the community. Sundial and weather responsive piece.

EXHIBITIONS

NOV 2024 -FEB 2025 – WATER IS THE HEART OF THE CITY– Suttie Arts Suite -Grampian Hospital Arts Trust.
Immersive joyful installation to change the physicality of the hospital gallery for the 10 year anniversary of the space. The work was inspired by the landscape and industries of Aberdeen and developed into a natural grotto using light, and movement to promote a sense of well-being during the dark winter days.

FEB/MAY 2024 – THE WOUND THE RAG AND THE IN BETWEEN – Eden Court Theatre (Performance)- Vivid Roots Collective – Set and Costume Designer – Design, build, make and source set, costumes and props for new play based in the Highlands around women’s health. The play was set at a clootie tree in the Victorian period and present day. Performed on the One Touch stage with a company of 5 actors, the set was destroyed as part of the action presenting an interesting design brief.

MAY 2023 – WALLS FOR WELLBEING – Public opening of permanent private works and series of Artist’s talks.

MARCH 2022- INSIDE OUT: OUTSIDE IN, Inverness Creative Academy, collaborative exhibition supported by Circus Artspace. Lifeline, installation based on recovery / repair, and participatory visible mending circle event.

JANUARY 2020 – MY EVERYDAY, Highland Hospice. (Postponed due to Covid) Collaboration to devise first Art Bag project for outreach patients.

MAY 2019 – RISE EXHIBITION, IMAG. Inverness. Sensory installation All At Sea and showcase of degree work.

APRIL 2018 – KINGUSSIE’S HIDDEN GEMS, Am Fasgadh Regeneration Company. Collaboration with the community for a notice board renovation celebrating the hidden spaces and stories of the village. 

MARCH 2017- SOIL TO SKY EXHIBITION, Woodland View, Healthcare facility, Ayrshire. Collaboration with patients and icecream architecture as part of internship during part time study.

AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2017 – FRAMEWORKS, Kincraig Stores, Kincraig, Highland. Collaboration with the community and artist Ann Vastano to regenerate the closed local shop while awaiting renovation. The project provided a mini museum for tourists and point of interest for locals.

NOVEMBER 2016 – THE BREATHING SPACE, Shop 19, Victorian Market, Inverness. Winter sunshine Installation using S.A.D lamps providing a calm sanctuary space from stressful Christmas shopping.

RESIDENCIES

SEPT 2022 –REOTHART NAN EALAIN – Gaelic Visual Arts- Isle of Lewis. Mico residency

MARCH 2019 – DALIA THELANDER DESIGN LAB, Starcatchers, Summerhall, Edinburgh. Immersive sensory space development for 0-18 month olds. Funded Residency. 

OCTOBER 2018 – DAVID SHEARING INTERROGATING SPACE WORKSHOP, The Envelope Room, NTS, Glasgow, Funded Residency exploring socially engaged art practice and performance design.

MAY 2018 – NARRATIVE SCULPTURE THROUGH PRINTMAKING AND PATE DE VERRE, Northlands Creative, Caithness. Funded Residency.

ARTS ROLES

SEPTEMBER 2021 – MARCH 2022 – PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OFFICER – REPAIR CAFE CAIRNGORMS, Boat of Garten Community Hall, Highland. Working with the community to set up a regular repair cafes and skill sharing events.

JULY 2007 – SEPT 2017 – ARTIST ART TUTOR, FREELANCE SCENIC ARTIST, Highland. Private classes, Perth Theatre, Woodburns Pizza. 

APRIL-DECEMBER 2004 –YOUTH ARTS COORDINATOR, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. Co-ordinating, devising and developing youth arts and family friendly events based in the theatre.

JANUARY 2001- MARCH 2004 –THEATRE OUTREACH WORKER, Eden Court Theatre , Inverness. Devising and delivering a wide range of theatre arts events and performances with 5-18yr olds, across six schools and in the community. 

SEPT 1995 – DEC 2004 – SCENIC AND COMMUNITY ARTIST, Scotland and Australia. Theatres include the Royal Lyceum, Traverse, Dundee Rep, Brunton also in Australia: Scenic Studios, Channel 9 and Deckchair. 

WORKSHOPS

JUNE 2024 – ROOTS, CONNECTION, BELONGING – Art workshop for women – Roots, Connection, Belonging Project – Exploring materials and connections based on home and land through artefacts at the Highland Folk Museum.

JUNE 2024- HELLO SUMMER! FESTIVAL – Speyside Children’s Arts. Children and families drop in art workshop. celebrating Wonderful Weather.