Photo: Huia Takau
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.
I am currently artist in residence with The Maltings and Newcastle University (Centre for the Rural Economy, Institute for Creative Arts Practice, Population Health Sciences Institute) where I am undertaking research into wellbeing in 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.
Selected Projects
Rural Wellbeing Research Residency | The Matings and Newcastle University, 2024 - 2025
Ecologies of Time | Newcastle University Fine Art Student Residency, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 2024
Connecting Threads | River Tweed Catchment, Scottish Borders, 2020-2024
The Gathering Field | Maple Cross Primary School, Hertfordshire, 2019-2021
We Will Eat Your Bones | Fieldwork Summer School, Hospitalfield, 2021
A Fair Land | Grizedale Arts at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2016
The Village Table | Grizedale Arts, Coniston, 2015
Talks and Workshops
Panel Discussion: Climate Justice | Films for Change, Scottish Borders, 2025
Nature Table | The Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed and Newcastle University, 2025
Alumni Lecture | Edinburgh College of Art Landscape Lecture Series, 2024 and 2025
Botanical Stories of the Tweed | Edinburgh College of Art, 2023
Connecting Threads: An Introduction | Edinburgh College of Art, 2023
Theatres of Nature | Talla Hartfell Wild Land Network, 2022
Alumni Lecture | Leeds College of Art, 2015
Teaching
Academic Portfolio | MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023, 2024 & 2025
Within the Folds: Berwick-upon-Tweed | MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023 & 2024
Quiet Places: Vatnajökull Glacier, Iceland | MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2023
Terrain & Ecologies: River Esk Catchment | MLA Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2022
Visiting Tutor | Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Leeds College of Art, 2015
Selected Roles
Landscape Designer | erz, Glasgow, 2018 - 2020
Landscape Assistant | Roundfield, Frome, 2017
Artist Assistant | Linda Brothwell Studio, Bristol, 2017
Art Programme Assistant | Lower Hewood Farm, Dorset, 2015 - 2016
Project Assistant | Claire Cumberlidge & Co., London, 2014 - 2016
Awards
Small Grants Award | Creative Arts Business Network 2025
Bursary | Mountain Training Scotland 2025
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
Portfolio Prize | Landscape Institute Scotland, 2018
Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship | Edinburgh College of Art, 2017
Porthleven Prize | Bath School of Art and Design, 2013
Artist Book Collection acquisition | Leeds College of Art, 2010
Professional Development
Delegate, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival | Imaginate, Edinburgh, 2025
Here We Flow workshop with Xan Dye | Magnetic North at Dance Base, 2025
Mountain Leader training | Glenmore Lodge, Cairngorms, 2022
End of Life Celebrant training | A Quiet Revolution, Glasgow, 2022
What Now: A Living Newspaper | Fieldwork Summer School, Hospitalfield, 2021
Wild Orchards Will Overgrow Us | Fieldwork Summer School, Hospitalfield, 2019
Education
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