I have been making work alongside other people since 2003, exploring issues which are important to them. I graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2000, and from Edinburgh Napier in 2016 with a Masters in Exhibition Design.
Recently, You're On Mute (2021), made via online interviews and interactions, explores and shares experiences of twelve people in three rural Scottish communities during lockdown, with Public Health Scotland. For the past few years I have been exploring Westburn Woods with local people in different ways and asking why these woods might be important. Pinewoods People (2020) with Trees For Life, explores 'stakeholders' values around Scottish Pinewoods, in a world accustomed to polarised narratives in the media and our communities. In 2016, a journey which resulted in the film Scripts on land reform (Scotland) was an enquiry into the methods used by researchers, the media, government and communities to communicate the narratives and conflicts associated with contemporary land use and land reform in Scotland.
Conversations for Change was a multi-stage public art project about mental health in 2015. It generated conversations through interventions in public places involving over 1000 people throughout the year. This work won Creative Edinburgh’s Social Award and an exhibition showing the project as a whole went on a short tour around Scotland in 2016.
I also currently work at CAPS Independent Advocacy, a mental health advocacy organisation, developing the concept and practice of using the arts as a form of advocacy for people with experience of mental health issues. Part of this work is Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition which you can find out about here: www.outofsighoutofmind.scot.
Contact: [email protected]
Recently, You're On Mute (2021), made via online interviews and interactions, explores and shares experiences of twelve people in three rural Scottish communities during lockdown, with Public Health Scotland. For the past few years I have been exploring Westburn Woods with local people in different ways and asking why these woods might be important. Pinewoods People (2020) with Trees For Life, explores 'stakeholders' values around Scottish Pinewoods, in a world accustomed to polarised narratives in the media and our communities. In 2016, a journey which resulted in the film Scripts on land reform (Scotland) was an enquiry into the methods used by researchers, the media, government and communities to communicate the narratives and conflicts associated with contemporary land use and land reform in Scotland.
Conversations for Change was a multi-stage public art project about mental health in 2015. It generated conversations through interventions in public places involving over 1000 people throughout the year. This work won Creative Edinburgh’s Social Award and an exhibition showing the project as a whole went on a short tour around Scotland in 2016.
I also currently work at CAPS Independent Advocacy, a mental health advocacy organisation, developing the concept and practice of using the arts as a form of advocacy for people with experience of mental health issues. Part of this work is Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition which you can find out about here: www.outofsighoutofmind.scot.
Contact: [email protected]
