Biographical Details
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne and brought up in the Lake District
Lives in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Undergraduate Degrees in Law & Fine Art
PhD from Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow University
Other Society Memberships
Pastel Society
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
Royal Watercolour Society
Scholarships, Awards & Prizes
2023 Winsor & Newton Award, New English Art Club
2019 Creative Scotland Open Project Award for Making Autistic Thinking Visible project
2019 Finalist, International Drawing Annual (INDA)
2017 South of Scotland Visual Artists and Craft-makers Award
2015 Oppenheim John-Downes Award / South of Scotland VACMA Award
2014 Conte á Paris Award / Pastel Society Exhibition Royal Watercolour Society Award
2014 RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition
2013 Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize Venice
2013 RSA Residency Award - Barns-Graham Trust
2012 James B S Curr Memorial Award, Paisley Arts Institute 124th Annual Exhibition
2012 Arts and Business Scotland Award - Shortlisted
2012 Pastel Society Prize
2011 Discerning Eye Scottish Regional Prize
2010 Winner Threadneedle Prize
2010 Winner Aspect Prize
2010 Jan Bruce Award - Glasgow Society of Women Artists
2010 The Bet Low Trust Award
2010 Daler-Rowney Award, The Pastel Society
2010 Finalist, International Drawing Annual (INDA)
2009 Royal Scottish Academy Award
2009 RSW Visual Arts Residency
2008 Glasgow Art Club Fellowship Prize
2008 Royal Glasgow Institute House for an Art Lover Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute
2007 Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Prize
2006 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award / Colonel McLean Trust Scheme / Logan and Johnston School Scheme Award / Jan Bruce Award - Glasgow Society of Women Artists
Past Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions:
2018 Internal Work &Gallery, Edinburgh
2017/18 Seeing Beyond the Immediate An Exhibition Touring Scottish Public Galleries -Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries: Scott Gallery Hawick; Lillie Gallery Glasgow
2015 Inte/Exte A-side B-side Gallery, London
2012 11 Spitalfields Gallery London
2011 Drawing (on) Riverside Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
2010 Tri Juncta in Uno The Meffan Gallery, Forfar
2009 Recent work from Florence and Glasgow House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2008 Drawing Construction Lillie Gallery, Glasgow
2006 Clyde Redevelopment Glasgow Royal Institute Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
2004 Surfaces Geologia Glasgow School of Art and the RIAS Gallery, Edinburgh
Selected group shows:
Arte Laguna, Venice, Royal Scottish Academy, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Riverside Museum, Mall Galleries London, Edinburgh, Rebecca Hossock Gallery London, Broth Art London, London Art Fair, Kilmorack Gallery, Gallery Heinzel, John Green Fine Art Glasgow, The &Gallery, Edinburgh, McLean Museum and Art Gallery Ayr, Paisley Art Institute, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Art Club, Air Gallery, London
Visual research - Conferences / lectures:
2019 Keynote presentation/Installation Body of Knowledge 2nd International Conference on Art and Cognition, Deakin University, Melbourne
2017 Seeing Beyond the Immediate Symposium, Gracefield Art Centre – Organiser/Speaker
2015 Imagination and the Law Oxford University – Invited Conference speaker
2012 The Artist’s Studio : Masterclass House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2012 Construction: Making as Thinking Symposium, Mall Galleries, London – Organiser/Speaker
2012 Drawing (on) Riverside 11 Spitalfields, London – Presentation
2011 Location Drawing Masterclass, Hospitalfield Arbroath
2010 Tri Juncta In Uno Lecture, Paisley Art Institute
2010 Drawing as Thinking for Architects Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen
2011 Drawing as Thinking Royal Glasgow Institute Lecture
2010 The Big Draw Event Lecture Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
2009 Enactive Copying: A First-Person methodology for investigating thinking processes Conference paper - Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Bristol University
2009 Drawing as we think: learning as we make Conference Paper, Creative Practice Conference, York St John University
2008 Drawing as Thinking Glasgow School of Art – Lecture
2007 Lights of Academy Conference Paper, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2006 International Drawing Research Institute Symposium Conference Paper, Glasgow School of Art
2005 Drawing Research presentation, University of Leeds and Kingston School of Art