Biography

Born in Scotland in 1959 my early studies were of Social Psychology and later Communication at Napier University Edinburgh. I have exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad including the Kanagawa Print Triennial Japan [2001], Women in Contemporary Printmaking Sofia Bulgaria [2005], Thoroughly Modern Women at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery [2006] and a solo exhibition at the Scottish Russia Institute [2010]

I have created a number of commissioned portrait pieces [Sally Beamish, Mick McGahey, Simon McBurney to name a few. I work from my studio in Edinburgh.

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Main Prizes\Awards\Purchases

2009 National Scottish Museum Scotland a Changing Nation [one print] Edinburgh

2009 Richard Demarco Prize Edinburgh Peoples Art Festival

2008 Professional membership Visual Arts Scotland

2003 Scottish National Portrait Gallery Print Collection – two prints

1999 Peacock Editioning Prize Peacock Studio Aberdeen Artists Show

 

Recent Solo Shows

2010 A Walk along the Fontanka  Scottish – Russian Forum Edinburgh

2008 The Walls Paper Glass&Thomson Edinburgh

2007 Radical Book Fair Out of the Blue Drill Hall art space Edinburgh

 

Most Recent Selected Group Shows

2011 NSA PRINT Exhibition Penzance Cornwall England

2011 SSA.VAS Contemporary Art Edinburgh

2011 Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibtion Aberdeen

2011 3rd Guanlan International Print Biennial China

2011 STANZA Poetry Festival St Andrews Scotland

2010 Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition RSA building Edinburgh

2009 Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition  Aberdeen Art Gallery

2008 Royal Glasgow Institute of FineArts Annual Exhibition The Mitchell Glasgow

2008 Scottish Society of Artists Annual Exhibition Edinburgh

2007 Bluten Weiss Anonymous Drawings Berlin

2006 New Faces Gallery Heinzel Aberdeen

2006 Thoroughly Modern Women Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh

2005 WASPS studio exchange  Arc Gallery Chicago USA

2005 Women in Contemporary Printmaking  Lessedra Contemporary Art Sofia Bulgaria

2005 Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition City Arts Centre Edinburgh

2004 Lessedra Contemporary Print Exhibition Sofia Bulgaria

2003 The Fine Art of Printmaking Touring Exhibition Scottish Borders

2001 Kanagawa International Print Triennial Yokohama Japan

2000 National Print Exhibition Mall Gallery London

 

Zine Collections

Barnard College Library NewYork

Glasgow Womens Art Library

Imprint  The Print Council Of Australia North Melbourne

Iniva Stuart Hall Library Institute of International Arts London,

Baltic Archives  Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Newcastle Upon Tyne England

Scottish Poetry Library Edinburgh

The Womens Library London Metropolitan University London

British Council Visual Arts Library London

 

Catalogues/pamphlets/Booklets

2011 A4International Printmakers catalogue Cornwall England

2011 Lost Found Kept 6 fold text series Fruitmarket Gallery books Edinburgh

2009 Lessedra Contemporary Print Exhibition Sofia Bulgaria

2009  Know Draw Pull 6 fold text booklets series

Fruitmarket Gallery bookshop Edinburgh

2007 ScreenPrint Triennial  NBC Tokyo Japan [honourable mention]

2006/7 Red Diaper & Face booklets Fruitmarket Gallery bookshop Edinburgh

2004/5 Lessedra Contemporary Print Exhibition Sofia Bulgaria

2002 Tidaholm Lithographic Symposium: 4th International Sweden

2001 International Print Triennial Kanagawa Yokohama Japan

 

Critical Reviews

Commissioned Essay Aug 2001 Love Hurts with Farewell Giles Sutherland

Commissioned Essay Aug 2000 Once is not Enough Ellen Galford

 

 Influences

John Berger writing, Gerhard Richter portraits, Kiki Smith photography,

the urban environment and the open moor lands.