Based in Govanhill, Glasgow, I work as a Scottish artist and cultural programmer across installation, sculpture, textiles, and drawing. My practice is rooted in a deep fascination with wild play, heterotopias, and the carnivalesque—spaces where hierarchies collapse, time flows differently, and the everyday rules are joyfully suspended. Drawing inspiration from fantasy, fairground culture, and subversive enchantment, I often create strange toys and heterotopic playscapes that invite playful resistance and imaginative freedom.
I am interested in engaging with a wild play that takes place in the margins of a page, which moves sideways, flattens hierarchies, disrupts linear progressions, and subverts norms of the capitalist sense world. I imagine wild toys; objects that have the capacity to enchant, queer, subvert and resist monomania and domestication, unbuilding the world.
Alongside my studio practice, I’m committed to public programming within gallery and museum contexts, on tech, programming and engagement. Balancing my studio work with my role at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock allows for a dynamic exchange between personal creative exploration and community-focused cultural programming, enriching both areas through their ongoing dialogue.
I graduated with First Class Honours in Art and Philosophy from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, following an HND in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College. Recent exhibitions include Flos Collective x Celtic Connections (Glasgow, 2025), Visual Arts Scotland at the (MacLaurin Gallery 2024), Hot Glue (Glasgow, 2023), ECO Collab (Many Studios, 2023) and Tides That Bind, Tides That Break (Fife, 2021). Residencies include Pig Rock Bothy at the National Galleries of Scotland and a student residency at Montclair University, New Jersey and an upcoming residency at Hospitalfield.
Recipient of several awards in 2023, including the New Blood Art Graduate Award, Arusha Gallery Award, Visual Arts Scotland Award, Society of Scottish Artists Award, Boom Graduates Publishing Award and Edinburgh Palette Award.
I share a collaborative studio space with artist Clyde Williamson at OuterSpaces, where we explore shared interests in participatory installation and community-rooted making. I am also a member of the Society of Scottish Artists, Visual Arts Scotland and SaltSpace. I am deeply committed to fostering community through creative practice, recent work includes installations at festivals such as the Girvan Festival of Light, alongside an upcoming large-scale commission at Kelburn Garden Party’s Neverending Glen for summer 2025. These projects emphasise ecological materials, collaborative making, and playful participation, creating opportunities for people to connect and engage through shared artistic experiences.