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

PROJECTS – INSTALLATION- THEATRE DESIGN

OCTOBER 2025 – HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DAD TO BE A FEMINIST,Laura Walker Productions. Aberdeen Arts Centre. Set and Costume designer, New play development & sharing.

AUGUST 2024 – FEBRUARY 2025 – BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA, Chapter 2, Riff Raff Theatre Company. Co-designer, Set & Costume for a community production in February 2025.

NOVEMBER 2024 – FEB 2025 – WATER IS THE HEART OF THE CITY, Suttie Arts Suite -Grampian Hospital Arts Trust. Immersive installation to change the physicality of the hospital gallery for the 10 year anniversary of the space.

FEBRUARY – MAY 2024 – THE WOUND THE RAG AND THE IN BETWEEN, Vivid Roots Collective & Eden Court Theatre (Venue). Set and Costume Designer – Design, build, make and source set, costumes and props for new play based in the Highlands around women’s health. Performed on the One Touch stage, the set was destroyed as part of the action presenting an interesting design brief.

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 pupil voice looking at future land management choices for Tormore Estate. The piece depicts outcomes of community engagement workshops

SEPTEMBER – 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. .

JANUARY 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 wideWild 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..

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.

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.

EXHIBITIONS

DECEMBER 2025 – ON THE WING, Rowan Tree Country Hotel, Aviemore, Restaurant Commission, Painting of house martins.

MAY 2025 & OCTOBER 2025 – PLEDGE I PROCESS I PLANET, Open Space Gallery (Grantown-on-Spey), Iona Gallery (Kingussie) & St.Margarets Hall (Braemar). Collaborative exhibition featuring ‘Voices and Choices‘ part of Cairngorms 2030 project to launch public awareness of the newly formed Cairngorms Creative Collective.

MAY 2025 – NIGHT OWL (Mural), Commission for gable end of private residence.

NOVEMBER 2024 – FEBRUARY 2025 – WATER IS THE HEART OF THE CITY, Suttie Arts Suite -Grampian Hospital Arts Trust.
Immersive installation to change the physicality of the hospital gallery for the 10 year anniversary of the space.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

RESIDENCIES

SEPTEMBER 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 – SEPTEMBER 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. 

SEPTEMBER 1995 – DECEMBER 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

MAY 2025 – OCTOBER 2025 – MURAL DESIGN & PAINT WORKSHOPS, Cairngorm National Park Authority collaboration with Alford Academy and Grantown Grammar Schools. Aberdeenshire & Highland.  Workshops to design, scale up and paint mural around the theme of Duthchas. 

MAY 2025 – SHARED GROUND, Collaborative Practice Workshop for arts practitioners in the Cairngorms National Park. Delivered collaboration with Naomi McIntosh and CNPA. This was a hybrid workshop running simultaneously in Speyside & Ballater, as professional development  for the PLEDGE I PROCESS I PLANET pilot project.

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.

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