EDUCATION
1999 –2003 Edinburgh College of Art. BA (hons) Drawing and Painting – 1st class
1993 –1999 Kirkwall Grammar School, Orkney
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO (selected)
2018 Exhibition Room, Old Library Kirkwall. Fea
2016 Tooin Studio, Kirkwall. Scarsa
2014 Custom House, Kirkwall. Skein
2012 Bonhoga, Shetland Arts. Bosquoy
2011 Kirkwall, Orkney. Tooin
2007 The Loft, St Margaret’s Hope,Orkney.Bird Wedding and the Skein
2006 Orkney Museum, Kirkwall. East
2006 Heilendi Medical Practice, Kirkwall. work
2005 Royal Bath and West Show. The Orkney Brand
2005 Amber Roome Contemporary Art. Edinburgh
2004 Waterfront gallery, Stromness. Noust
2004 Seatters gallery, Westray. Sneuk
2004 Orkney gallery, Kirkwall. West
2002 Orkney gallery, Kirkwall. Places
GROUP SHOWS (Selected)
2020 Fundraiser in aid of MND Scotland – Many New Dances
2016 Kirkwall. Open Windows
2015 Pier Arts Centre, Stromness. Open exhibition
2014 Shetland Museum. What Seas What Shores
2011 Helensburgh, Scotland. Lifeworks 11
2008 HiArts, Inverness
2008 Porteaus Brae, Stromess, Hoy T Five
2008 Helensburgh, Scotland. Lifeworks 08
2007 VAS Exhibition. Edinburgh.
2007 Glasgow Art Fair
2007 Newcastle Art Fair
2007 RSA exhibition, Edinburgh
2006 HI Arts, Glasgow Art Fair
2006 Stenton Gallery, Edinburgh Fringe, Lloyds TSB, Edinburgh
2005 Waterfront Gallery, Stromness. An Orkney Mix
2005 The Stenton Gallery, East Lothian.
2005 Smithy Gallery, Glasgow, Orkney Mixed
2003 City Arts Centre, Edinburgh. RSA student exhibition
2003 Edinburgh College of Art. Degree show
2003 South street gallery, St Andrews Orkney landsacpe
2002 Edinburgh College of Art. Don’t jump (sponsored by Grolsh)
2002 Fetes College, Edinburgh. Group
2001 Edinburgh College of Art. The Sausage Factory
1998 Tankerness house museum. Norway, Voss
COLLECTIONS
Edinburgh College of Art
James Cumming student collection
Kirkwall Grammar School
Orkney College
Private collection: The Mill, Westray.
Arcadia Insurance, Kirkwall
Scholes Chartered Accountant, Kirkwall
Voluntary Action Orkney, Kirkwall
AWARDS
2020 VACMA Award – OIC and Creative Scotland
2015 Visual Arts and Crafts Awards Scheme
2012 Calum MacDonald publishing prize Ecstatics:a language of birds
2006 Short listed for Orkney Arts Society Commission
2005 Grant for IT equipment from Orkney Enterprise
2005 Hi-Arts award
2005 Live Wire regional winner for new business
2004 Business start up grant from Orkney Enterprise
2003 ECA January open exhibition. Dayler Rowney drawing prize
2003 RSA Painting prize & the Maclaine Watters Meda
2003 Sponsorship for degree show from Adam & Company
2003 Andrew grant bequest: travel scholarship
2003 The George Jackson Hutcheson Memorial Prize
RESIDENCIES
2008 Triangle Arts Trust 3 Islands Workshop, Hoy
2004 Orquil gallery, Rendall, Orkney
PUBLICATIONS
What Seas What Shores, Hansel Cooperative
Ecsatics – a Language of Birds. Brea Editions ISBN 978-1-907508-04-2
Reading Holderlin on Orkney, Harry Gilonis ISBN 978-1-907508-02-8. 2010
Bosquoy II. AFO 9 – Art from Orkney
Mailboats, Hansel Press. ISBN 978-0-9558414-3-9. 2008
3 Islands, Triangle Arts Trust. ISBN 978-0-95457-87-87. 2009
OTHER
2018-present Chair Soulisqouy Printmakers
2020 Organised Online Fundraising Exhibition. 20 artists and makers included. (over £8k raised for MND Scotland
2019 Beyond Landscape workshops (celebrating 40 years of the Pier Arts Centre)
2014- 2017. Chair of Pier Arts Centre Board
2007 – 2017 Advisory Group Orkney College Art and Design
2006 – 2017 Director Pier Arts Centre Board.
2016 Organised Open Windows Community Exhibition, Kirkwall (30 artists/30windows)
2011 Sylvia Wishart workshop –The Pier Arts Centre
2007 Member (Treasurer) of ‘Untitled’ Art group – Orkney
2007-08 Member of Triangle Arts Trust working group
2005 PAC Commissioned Arts Forum Tullimentum
2004 2 month workshop advanced higher KGS Soulisquoy Studio.
2004 The Big Draw Tankerness House Museum, Orkney.
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