About
I have undertaken artist residencies and exhibited work in the UK and Iceland. My writing on field recording and tree time was published in the sound art journal Row of Trees. I am currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at Edinburgh College of Art, supported by an AHRC/SGSAH scholarship. My research examines the ways in which art can consider diverse temporal stories in Scotland’s temperate rainforests, from multigenerational restoration work to the spectral temporalities of rhododendron and ash dieback.
My practice is informed by environmental humanities, place-based and multispecies approaches. I test theory through art-based fieldwork, sound recording, film, photography and site-responsive sculpture and attempt to articulate an art practice that is grounded in site histories, presents and futures, both culturally and ecologically. My most recent work has explored the potential of alternative photographic practices to consider plant temporalities and their agency in landscape narratives.
Other Experiences
In 2023-2024, I co-convened the cross-college Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network PhD Lab and reading group at the University of Edinburgh and I am a member of of the Humanimal Kind research network at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2023 I was one of SGSAH/British Council's Earth Scholars and attended the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) and Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) PhD training: Planting the Environmental Humanities: Theories and Methods. In 2020, I completed a Masters in Contemporary Art Practice (Distinction) at Edinburgh College of Art.
In 2025 I am taking part in Bioart Society’s art-science residency Field_Notes at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Sápmi and in 2026 I will return to work on an Ars Bioartica solo residency project.
Presentations and Publications
Presenter at Royal Geographic Society: international Board of Geographers Annual conference, in the panel Practicing Vegetal Geographies: Creativities and Beyond. My paper, with Annie Gallagher, was called ‘Active witnessing in active landscapes: Creative field practices in Scottish conservation’ | 2025
A short piece was published in the Phytocrip Manifesto published by Ei, Mainoksia, Kiitos! | 2025
Publication of paper in the sound art journal Row of Trees | ‘Arboreal Intimacies: vibrating bodies, sharing wounds, navigating across messy boundaries’ (focus: artistic approaches to navigating more-than-human temporalities) | 2024
Contributor to the 'Bioart Coven Manifesto', published in Occult Studies Vol. 2: Revolution! by Snake Hair Press! | 2021
Selected Group Exhibitions
PhD Showcase, Edinburgh College of Art | 2023
Situated, Edinburgh College of Art | 2022
Torg, Korpúlfsstaðir, Iceland | 2021
Artist Talk - presenter | SÍM Visual Artists Residency Programme, Reykjavik, Iceland | 2021
SÍM Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna, Korpúlfsstaðir, Iceland | 2021
Final, Not Over...Again, Unit 1 Gallery, London | 2021
Masters Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art | 2020
RIFT, Edinburgh College of Art | 2019
IGNEOUS, Edinburgh College of Art | 2019
Salon des Refusés, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh | 2019
The Salon, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh | 2018
Summer Exhibition, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh | 2018
Still We Rise, The People's Film Club, London | 2018
Winter Exhibition, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh | 2017