1969 - 1970 –
Foundation Course in Art & Design, North Oxon School
1970 -
1971 -
Chelsea School
of Art , London
Sept.1999
– June 2003 BA Hons (First Class) Sculpture, Edinburgh College
Sept 2003
– June 2005 MFA Edinburgh
College
1971 – 1979
COMMUNITY WORK - various non statutory organizations in Belfast , North America and London
1979-1985
Living in Middle East and raising
children.
1985-1987
Project Worker Community Education and Arts Centre, Banbury, Oxon.
1987-1998 MANAGER
of ‘Open House’, a Mental Health Resource Centre in the East End of London,
funded by MIND in Tower Hamlets, linking art and mental health. Coordinated
raising money for and the building of a million pound centre including café
,studios, workshops and drop-in facilities. Set up and managed a team of twelve
permanent staff and thirty sessional workers. Set up a residency based at the
centre with the Whitechapel Gallery.
1999 – 2005
Student
Nov 2005 –
present. SELF EMPLOYED ARTIST/
part time lecturer
Dec 2006 – Feb 2007. Commissioned by NHS Greater Glasgow
Team working on The New Victoria Hospital (Art and Architecture
initiative)
2007 – May 2011- Annual visiting Lecturer BA Fine Art, University of the
Highlands and Islands (North Uist),
2008 - 09 Visiting lecturer - Glasgow School Art, Level I Architecture.
2008- 2009. Part-time Lecturer, School of Sculpture
Jan – June 2009. Residency, East
Lothian Council/Museums services – installation TENT in the exhibition ‘East Lothian
and the Transatlantic Slave Trade’.
2007 – 2010. Running workshops –
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre, North Uist, East
Lothian Council, 3Harbours festival etc
May 2010 – May 2011 – Founder and Project Manager for environmental
social enterprise company - ‘Carbon Neutral Stenton’
Currently – Chair of Dunbar Arts Trust and Chair of Art Root Open Studios
East Lothian .
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
3rd
Sept – 28th Dec 2001 -
Touring exhibition with short listed work for the Jerwood Drawing Prize
4 November
2002 - CROSSING THE LINE installation
launch into the North Sea, North Berwick, Scotland
8th
July – 3rd August 2003.
Compass Gallery, ‘New Generation Show’, Glasgow
20th
Nov – 20th Dec 2003. One of
five artists in launch exhibition for HAMES LEVACK in Marble Arch, London
8th
– 12th Dec 2003. Group
exhibition, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
12th
Oct – 10th Nov 2004. ASH 100 - installation in’ Room 129’ Hilton Hotel, Trafalgar Square , London
November
2004 - short film in new media show, Taigh Chearsabhagh
Museum
25thMarch - 9thApril – 2005. SHADOW LAND - , installation in international group
exhibition, ‘Dudelsack’ in the Deutzer Brucke, Cologne
25th June – 10th July 2005. - disPLACE, installation in the
Oct – Dec
2005 -
RBS Bursary Award Show, Old
Brompton Road London
April/May2006 - In collaboration with cameronwebster Architects,
joint winner of competition for proposals for a 21STCENTURYCOMMUNITY GREEN. The Lighthouse Centre, Glasgow
April – July 2006 – Group show 18@108 Exhibition, RBS,
London
17th/18th June 2006 -
Installation in central London
1ST July – 12th August 2006 - Oh!Mother Solo exhibition. The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
4th November 2006 - 13th January
2007 – CHANGING PLACES. Solo
exhibition, outside and in gallery installations. Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre, Lochmaddy,
Noth Uist, Outer Hebrides .
April/May 2007 - Royal Academy of Arts,
4th-26th
August 2007 – Group show MAGAZINE 07 at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop as part of
Edinburgh Art Festival.
18th Nov-18th Dec 2007 – SURVEY,
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop 20th Anniversary exhibition at the RSA,
Edinburgh.
July 31st –
August 30th 2008 Installation, TOBACCO HOUSE in three venues in Edinburgh
and Glasgow, for The Edinburgh Art Festival 2008 - funded by SAC.
July 31st
to August 30th 2008. Temporary
installation commissioned by ‘ Big Things On The Beach’, Portobello, Edinburgh
as part of The Edinburgh Art Festival.
5th August
– 14th November 2008. –
Installation for Borders Sculptors in Inverewe
Garden , Wester Ross and then on to Priorwood Garden
in Melrose
26th Sept.
– 12th Oct. 2008. Installation ALL WRAPPED UP, for FRED - An Art
Invasion Across Cumbria
5th
– 14th June 2009 Featured
artist for the 3Harbours Festival, East Lothian. TRAWL- Installation in Cockenzie Power Station.
June 2010 –
3Harbours Festival East Lothian – Installation
at sea - ’WHOSE WAVES,
June 2012 –
3Harbours Festival East Lothian – Installation
–‘ WHICH WAY NOW’
March – May
2013. Exhibition for artists who have received Creative and Professional
Development Bursaries – East Lothian/Creative Scotland. John Grey
Centre, Haddington, East Lothian .
AWARDS AND
PUBLICATIONS.
June 2000
Andrew Grant Bequest Travel Award (Edinburgh College
2001 Artists Book - “The High Line: with Stevenson in the Cevennes Edinburgh
2001 Short listed for the Jerwood drawing prize
2003 Royal
Scottish Academy
June
2003 Andrew Grant Bequest Award for Distinguished work
Oct
2005 RBS Bursary Award 2005
Oct
2005 CABE and A&B ‘PROJECT’
engaging artists in the built environment. ‘Talking Artists Award’
Jan 2008 –
Sept 2008 Scottish Arts Council
Artist’s Development Award.
March 2010 –
June 2010 East Lothian/SAC Artist’s
Development Award
June 2012 –
June 2013 Creative and Professional
Development Bursary – East Lothian/Creative Scotland
