Education
BDes (1st class Hons) Jewellery and Metalwork, Dundee, 2015
Certificate TESOL Trinity College. 2005
Master of Public Health. Glasgow University. 2000
Master of Public and Social Administration. Brunel University. 1987
Professional exams of Royal Town Planning Institute UK. 1975
Diploma in Town Planning . University of the West of England. 1974
Awards
Fife Contemporary Art Council Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award 2017
Goldsmiths Centre Hand-raising for Aspiring Silversmiths 2017
Goldsmiths Getting Started 2017
Society of Designer Craftsmen Highly Commended 2016
Night Shift residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop 2015
Fife Contemporary Art Council Mentoring grant 2016
Pittenweem Arts Festival Emerging Artist Bursary 2015
F and A Bradshaw Travel Bursary to Alchimia, Florence 2015
Guild of Jewellery Designers Gold Membership 2015
Goldsmith’s Company Silver Bursary Award 2015
Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Emerging Artist Residency 2015
Goldsmith’s Company Undergraduate Summer School in Silver-Smithing 2013
Experience
Clachtoll Broch artist in residence 2018-2019
Public event- bronze age casting and alloying Glencanisp 2018
Wax carving workshop with Lochinver primary school 2018
Public event smelting and wax carving Stoer 2018
Pewter casting in sand moulds, Glencanisp art studio 2018
Pewter casting and copper smelting workshop, Ullapool Academy 2018
British Society of Enamellers Annual Conference, casting workshop 2017
Art in the Buchat casting workshop 2017
Plant lore and jewellery workshops Lumsden and Pittenweem
Up-cycled jewellery workshop Aberfeldy
SUNY New Paltz exchange semester spring 2014
Azza Fahmy Design Studio, Cairo. June/July 2014
Non-stuff Festival upcycling workshops, Wiston 2014
Ebba Goring Studio August 2013
Bryony Knox at Coburg House June 2013
Eileen Gatt Studio May 2013
Tramway Visual Arts Centre Glasgow portfolio 2012
Exhibitions
Wade Gallery Pittenweem Summer Exhibition 2019
Visual Arts Scotland, small objects Edinburgh 2018
Royal Scottish Academy Open, 2017
Fisher Galleries, Pittenweem 2017
Inspired, Goldsmiths Centre 2017
Shine 2016, Goldsmiths Centre 2016/7
White Fox Gallery, Coldstream, invited artist (solo show) 2016
Spoon, Unit Twelve, Staffordshire, 2016
Converge, Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh 2016
Create in Fife, Lochgelly Centre 2016
Pittenweem Arts Festival 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
East Neuk Open Studios 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
New Designers 2015
Silver in the Shadows, Scottish Fisheries Museum 2015
GALLERIES
Fisher Gallery, Pittenweem
White Fox Gallery, Coldstream
Publications
‘Region 1 Workshop with Maureen Carswell – Using Foil’,
Quarterly Journal of British Guild of Enamellers. Winter 2014
‘Pearls is Tears’ video of my sound piece, December 2014
‘Lives in a Landscape, An investigation of art and the inspiration of landscape’
January 2015