Artist | Photographer | Writer | Yoga Faciliator | Land Worker

I am a Scotland based inter-disciplinary artist and thinker using lens based media, writing and embodied practices.  I am also a landworker and skilled facilitator as well as a student and teacher of yoga.

My practice has involved documenting artistic processes and performance through photography and film for over a decade as well as engaging in a deliberately diverse and collaborative practice. The limbs of my practice reach into embodied knowledges, sensory ecologies, multi-species entanglement, forms of care, movement, singing, deep listening and rest. Central to my practice is an interrogation of how creative vocabularies, participatory and social collaboration can function to address ecological crisis and re-navigate a relationship to the more-than-human. 

I also visually document artistic processes, community art and growing projects, as well as accepting commissions for portraiture of people, our more-than-human companions and the rituals and passages we move through. I photograph with an acute sensitivity and aptitude for listening to detail; both spoken and felt. 

From 2023-2024 I studied an MA in Movement, Mind & Ecology at Schumacher College, Devon. As part of my research I developed ‘Nocturning: Becoming Spherical;' an exploration of night-walking in Scotland with my black labrador, Beag. It attended to the affective dynamics and relations of darkness and explored how immersive exposures in the night can illuminate other ways of knowing, seeing and being. The work can be read here. 

In April 2024, I returned to Devon to learn how to grow food regeneratively; working and living on land in the Southwest whilst working at a variety of market gardens and CSAs. During this period I interrogated a connection to land, labour, landownership, exploitation, food sovereignty and classism. 

I also have extensive experience working with children and young people in a variety of settings, as well as facilitation experience within a broad range community settings. 

I am neurodivergent, working class and spent the first seven years of my life living in the Traveller community. 

All of these languages, contexts and skills inform the sensitivity of my work, how I make it and who I make it with. 

I am a member of Living Rent, Landworkers' Alliance and Scottish Artist Union. I am also PVG registered. 

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Focusing in and filtering out. 

Engaged in the act of noticing and paying attention. Of attuning to and tuning in, listening and translating. 

Tracing and transforming. 

I witness people, beings, ecologies, place, gatherings, processes, performance, presence and absence. 

In story, in dialogue, we imagine and dream into other ways of being. 

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If you would like to commission me to document a project or collaborate on a project please say hello!

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Exhibitions/Works 

2023 - 

Wallowing with Littermates - Film work exploring a relationship to soil, meat production and agriculture through the witnessing of a litter of pigs and their relationship with their mother, Emily. 

2022- 

Soil, Silt, Clay - Collaborative film project made with Ema Jayne Park exploring a relationship to land through soil. 

This Endless Sea - Part of the collaborative team working on the installation work by Chloë Smith. Housed inside a specially designed coastal shelter is a six screen, short moving image work and soundscape, that explores themes of grief and the sea. An intimate experience for one or two people (or a family) at a time, the work creates a space for people to gently reflect on their own experiences of grief and loss.

2020-

'Singing Helps Me Breathe' - Film Screening - Camelon Winter Festival

2019-

Holding It Together - 

A multidisciplinary performance exploring the evolving nature of friendship and grief. The work takes place in an intimate space, carefully designed to support audience members as they reflect upon their own experiences of grief and loss.

The performance is part of a series of multidisciplinary works exploring friendship and grief. You can watch a film made as part of a residency at Lyth Arts Centre here.

2018 - 

'If We Didn't Have All That' - Film Screening - The Touring Network - Forres

'Alright Now' - Film Residency and Screening - Glasgow Womens Aid and Glasgow Storytelling Centre - Milk Cafe, Glasgow

'All Different. All the Same' - Film Screening - Platform, Glasgow

2017 -

TAXI - Architecture Fringe - Civic House - Glasgow

Pollokshields Playhouse - Architecture Fringe - New Glasgow Society

Common Ground- Project Film Screening Tour - Glasgow, Isle of Mull, Banchory

2016 -

Not Shy - Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

Residencies

2021-

FIELD Scotland: On Value - In March 2021, a group of 29 creative practitioners from across Scotland came together in virtual spaces to think, talk, listen and dream, learning from each other and through the act of dialogue. My contribution made a case for quieter forms of activism. 

Degrowth Scotland: Degrowing the Economy – Regrowing Our Lives- Delivered jointly by Enough! Scotland and the Centre for Human Ecology, Degrowth Scotland was a participatory, transformative learning programme for social and environmental practitioners, (post)activists, change-makers and everyone else interested in exploring ideas and practices for economies of care, solidarity, belonging and social and ecological justice within planetary limits.

Bashful Radicals - A youth led climate residency delivered ahead of COP21 in Glasgow. A new and attentive forms of activism that privileges the introverted, the soft, and the quieter forms of rebellion.

2019 - 

Push + Lead Artist/ Film Artist Creative Europe funded project with Imaginate (Scotland - lead partner), Krokusfestival (Hasselt, Belgium), The Ark (Dublin, Ireland), Scenekunstbruket (Oslo, Norway) and Aabendans (Roskilde, Denmark) and new associated partner Bangkok International Children's Theatre Festival (Thailand).

Lyth Arts Centre: It Goes On - Residency Development of 'It Goes On:' a film to accompany 'Holding It Together;' a work in dialogue with the ecologies of grief. 

Platform Associate Artist (2018-2019) 

2018 - 

Platform Radio / The Teen Age - A podcast series developed in collaboration with children and young people in Easterhouse, Glasgow.

Easterhouse Film with Luminate - Collaborative film project between Colin Tennant, Jassy Earl and older residents of Easterhouse, Glasgow.

Cove Park with Caroline Bowditch and Joan Cleville - Residency exploring bodies with dance artists. 

2017 - 

Spin Off - Film Residency - Paragon Music / Caroline Bowditch / Edinburgh Science Festival 

La Baracca- Testoni Ragazzi - Artist Meets Early Years Residency in Bolgna, Italy.

2016-

Expecting Something Emerging Artist - Starcatchers 

Livescore Trainee Artist in Residence - Imaginate 

Pollokshields Playhouse - Film Artist in Residence

Education

2011-2015 : MA (Undergraduate) English Literature and Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow: First Class

2023-2024 : MA (Postgraduate) Mind, Movement and Ecology at Schumacher College, Devon: Distinction