I am a multi media artist based in East Lothian, Scotland.
Following completion of MFA Drawing in Dundee I have exhibited work in Berlin, Sheffield and Halfiax, UK. I am currently preparing a new body of work ‘Everything begins small and nothing ends’ for a group exhibition ’13 Windows’ June 2024 in Edinburgh.
Chance encounters are what I thrive on. Tapping into the sub conscious and recording the everyday people and places around me.
I improvise and re-use but what underpins everything is that I require at least seven good reasons before I can take any idea forward. I work on paper, most recently on long scrolls but also in video, digital making and clay. Narrative and the tiny nuance of change in narrative. How
The immediacy of drawing appeals. Capturing the essence quickly. Therefore drawing has become the scaffolding of my multimedia practice.
I have learnt the value of the small sketch and that is how most things start.
At a time when AI can do almost everything for you, the handprint of the artist was just one of the reasons I took a leap in the MFA show project ‘Me Neither’, working directly in oversized clay portraiture.