About

I am an artist, landscape architect and creative producer based in Scotland. My work aims to create and support meaningful interaction between people, the environment and the more-the-human world. I am interested in the relationship between landscape cycles, life cycles and making processes, and how the act of making can help us access different forms of knowledge and understanding. My practice is often site specific and is necessarily multi-disciplinary, using drawing, making and movement to create objects, landscapes, workshops and performances.

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I am currently artist in residence with The Maltings and Newcastle University (Centre for the Rural Economy, Centre for Creative Art Practice, Population Health Sciences Institute) where I am undertaking research into the wellbeing of rural communities by exploring the relationship between the human and landscape body. In 2020 I developed Connecting Threads with artist and heritage consultant Rachel Hunter, a five-year cultural programme exploring the habitats, ecology and communities of the River Tweed at the catchment scale. You can find out more about this project and the current team here.

 

I teach Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art and am a collaborator on the design studio, Within the Folds, situated in Berwick-upon-Tweed and led by Anaïs Chanon. This year I am training to become a qualified Mountain Leader, to enable me lead and facilitate artist-led research and practice in mountain environments. 

 

Proud to be a member of Neuk Collective.

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Selected Projects

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Rural Wellbeing Research Residency | The Maltings and Newcastle University, 2024 

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Connecting Threads | River Tweed Catchment, Scottish Borders, 2021 - 2024

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Participating artist for We Will Eat Your Bones | Fieldwork Summer School, Hospitalfield, 2021

 

Lead artist for The Rock and Roll Field | Maple Cross Primary School, Hertfordshire, 2019 - 2021

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Collaborating artist for A Fair Land |Grizedale Arts at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2016

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Collaborating artist for The Village Table | Grizedale Arts, Coniston, 2015

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Selected Positions

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Landscape Designer at erz | Glasgow, 2018 - 2020

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Artist Assistant at Linda Brothwell Studio | Bristol, 2017

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Art Assistant at Lower Hewood Farm | Dorset, 2015 - 2016

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Project Assistant at Claire Cumberlindge & Co. | London, 2014 - 2016

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Teaching

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Within the Folds: Berwick-upon-Tweed | MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023 & 2024

 

Academic Portfolio | MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023 & 2024​

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Quiet Places: Vatnajökull Glacier, Iceland |MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023

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Terrain & Ecologies: River Esk Catchment | MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2022

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Final Major Project visiting tutor | Foundation Diploma, Leeds College of Art, 2015

 

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Talks and Lectures

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Alumni Lecture | Landscape Lecture Series, Edinburgh College of Art, 2024​

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Botanical Stories of the Tweed | Edinburgh College of Art, 2023

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Connecting Threads: An Introduction | Edinburgh College of Art, 2023

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Theatres of Nature | Talla Hartfell Wild Land Network, 2022

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Alumni Lecture | Leeds College of Art, 2015

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Education

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Master of Landscape Architecture | Edinburgh College of Art, 2016 - 2018

 

BA(Hons) Idea, Material, Object  | Bath School of Art and Design, 2010 - 2014

 

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design | Leeds College of Art, 2009 - 2010

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Awards

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Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award | Creative Scotland, 2022

 

Work in Progress Mentoring | V&A Dundee, 2022

 

School's Prize | Rosa Barba International Landscape Biennial, 2018

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Portfolio Prize | Landscape Institute Scotland, 2018

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Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship | Edinburgh College of Art, 2017

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Porthleven Prize | Bath School of Art and Design, 2013 

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Artist Book Collection Acquisition | Leeds College of Art, 2010

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