EXHIBITIONS

Something happens to us when we clear our parents’ house after they’ve gone. The responsibility of dismantling a life or lives, to be the person who says what stays and what goes, what is precious, what should be retained, loved and appreciated.

For this exhibition I have unravelled and used some of the precious pieces of fabric and paper, as well as objects, accumulated by my family and in my own life: damask and linen tablecloths, jewellery, service records, clothes I have made or worn through the decades, material collected and received.

RECENT

Visual Arts Scotland

THEN & NOW: 100 YEARS OF VISUAL ARTS SCOTLAND

ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY, EDINBURGH
17 FEB - 13 MARCH 2024

AWARD

Golden Hare books award

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This exhibition began when I was sitting amongst long grasses, by standing stones. I had spent a lot of time with my dog Orla in mutual appreciation of the sights, sounds and scents around us in this special place.

Having said a sad but inevitable goodbye to her a few weeks before, the moment provoked specific memories but also seemed to conjure other, human bereavements reaching back generations, and deepened my reflections on the subject of loss and the preciousness of life.

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Nesting

SOLO SHOW

UPRIGHT GALLERY, EDINBURGH
18 JUNE - 8 JULY 2022

This exhibition gathered together work made during a period of unexpected nesting during the pandemic. Through close observation of found feathers and nests, I slowed down and settled in to make studies of these beautiful, complex and perfectly imperfect structures.

With pieces developed through drawing, painting, monoprinting and collage, Nesting features works on paper, wood and in textiles.

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