Education
2005 to 2007 Edinburgh College of Art, MFA
2001 to 2005 Edinburgh College of Art, BA Hons Painting (First class)
1985 to 1988 Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Diploma of the College of Occupational Therapists
Selected Exhibitions (*single shows )
2014
Everything is Vague Until You Make it Precise, Briggait Project Space, Glasgow
Salonely, Embassy Members’ Show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2013
*Holding Pattern, Suburban Pavilion, Edinburgh
Windshift, SIM House, Reykjavik, Iceland
If I Were A Handbag Designer, Suburban Pavilion, Edinburgh
Members Show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2012
BYOB, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
BABEL, Studio 41, Glasgow, with Mirja Koponen
Follow the White Rabbit, Water Tower Art Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
Salon Neu, members’ show at the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2011
Meet Me at the Water Tower, Water Tower Art Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
Wish You Were Here, working with Low Pressure (LP), Water Tower Art Fest, Bulgaria
Floral Facade, Gallery 1, Arts Complex, Edinburgh
3 Exhibitions, The Richard Demarco Archive. Edinburgh
2010
‘a’, The WOT, George the Forth Bridge, Edinburgh
Come Ye Hither, installation working with LP, The Crofters Store, North Uist, Western Isles
For Innocent Amusement, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre North Uist
Members’ Show, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2009
Area Turin, Prague and Neratovice, Czech Republic
Slateford Green Arts Project, Slateford Green Housing Association Edinburgh
Habitants and Inhabitants, Fettes College Edinburgh
2007
On the Rocks, MFA Exhibition, The Lighthouse, Granton, Edinburgh
Student Exhibition, RSA Edinburgh
2006
Swap 195, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Members’ Show, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Society of Scottish Artists Exhibition (Invited Artist), RSA
The Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace, Edinburgh College of Art
2005
Members’ Show, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Student Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
Performances (single shows )
2011
TRI the Tour, Old Ambulance Depot, Leith
Beuys Meets Muir, John Muir Birthplace Museum, Dunbar, East Lothian
Action at the Auction, AXO Gallery, Leith
Yves Klein Be Mine, St Mark’s Unitarian Church, Edinburgh
2009
Fanny Craddock Pollock, The Apartment, Prague, Czech Republic
2007
Recipes in Action,* Market Gallery, Glasgow
Recipes,* with daily workshops over 3 weeks, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh
Awards
2010
Creative Scotland and Hope Scot Trust, funding with artists’ collective, Low Pressure
2009
European Union, funding from the Youth in Action Programme
2007
Travel Bursary from the Andrew Grant Bequest Fund
2005
Travel Bursary from the Andrew Grant Bequest Fund
2004
Drawing and Painting Prize from the Andrew Grant Bequest Fund
2003
Drawing and Painting Prize from the Andrew Brant Bequest Fund
Work held in the Collection of Edinburgh College of Art
Collaborative Artists’ Groups
7@7, monthly artists’ group crits. organised with artist Martine Foltier Pugh
Low Pressure, with visual artists Laura Sutherland, Margaret McCormick and Sarah MacIntyre
Teflon, with visual artists Darren Farquhar, Petra Pennington and Mirja Koponen
The Edinburgh Peer Group with multidisciplinary contemporary Edinburgh based artists
Curatorial Projects
If I Were a Handbag Designer, with project BCOM, Seoul, South Korea, 2013 ongoing exchange.
The Back Garden Biennale, Edinburgh, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2016
The Suburban Pavilion, Fairmilehead, Edinburgh, ongoing events organisation.
Residency
SIM Artists’ Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland 2013
Workshop Teaching
The Drawing Room, Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 2013
Bibliography
Review of the Back Garden Biennale ’12 by Alex Hetherington, on A-N at Interface
Holding Pattern, Review by Alex Hetherington, on A-N at Interface