other work

unfired porcelain sentences, 2021

In the development of work which led to flare, a series of sentences from unfired porcelain were placed around the city. These ‘gentle interventions’ into public space were intended to engage people going about their days. Created and installed at the cusp of society ‘re-opening’ they were designed to accompany collective emerging while acknowledging how fragile that emerging was and continues to be. Because the pieces are unfired, they crumble and wash away with the rain, leaving no trace.

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your connection is unstable (postcards for PF)

October - December 2020

Working with feelings of loneliness and disconnect, this postal project sought ways of connecting with people without relying on virtual means. 

Relying entirely on memory to draw participants in continuous line without looking at the page, the artist also included a memory or an imagined encounter with that person on the reverse.

This piece helped to raise over £500 for PF Counselling. 

the Usher

co-creator/co-editor/author, April 2020 - June 2020

The Usher was a hyper-local micropublication, created during lockdown in an effort to connect people by non-virtual means. It ran for eight issues, inviting and publishing contributions from readers within the Leith, Edinburgh area. More information about the publication can be found here, including an interview with the co-creators (under pseudonyms).

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I am absolutely delighted to announce that I’m the recipient of the @waspsstudios Award 2021, for my work in @leithschoolofart’s contemporary art practice exhibition. The award means I’ll be exhibiting new work next year in @southbl
As part of the work which led to Flare, I made a series of sentences from unfired porcelain which I placed around the city. I love the idea of ‘gentle interventions’ into public space, as a way of meeting people going about their days. I
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Here is a new piece, called Flare. It’s currently being exhibited as part of the @leithschoolofart Contemporary Art Practice Exhibition at Patriothall Gallery.
What I wanted to do with this piece was look at the transformative impact of social isolation. Since lockdown measures were introduced, I’ve spent the vast majority of my time alone in my flat, with only the sun for company. To capture this com
I placed the tiles all over my living space, in every room, in cupboards, under the bed, on the windowsills, all over the floor, across my bed, on my desk. Each tile now has an irreversible record of the light that touched it. I’ve never felt t
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