Continually moving between sculptural forms, printmaking and drawing, my practice explores ways of breaking, dissecting, uncovering and redefining objects and materials. My work examines the overlooked and undervalued; domesticity, the idea of waste or inferior materials and how materials and objects are shaped by their historical, cultural and political context. I am curious about how externalities relate to wider themes; unique metal swarf fragments left over from manufacture; plastic nurdles washed up on beaches, city geology and urban mining materials; pigment made from London pollution gathered in a face mask.
I have a strong interest in the intersection between art and science, particularly looking at the edges, the places where discourse and disciplines overlap. Much of my work is collaborative and I actively seek out interdisciplinary collaborations and dialogues with other professions and institutions such as physicists from CERN, Geneva; chemists, engineers and mathematicians from University of Edinburgh, archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology and Soil Scientists from Cranfield University.
My most recent works look at the relationship between humans and the environment, the legacy of enlightenment and industrialisation and how patterns of thinking shape social value systems, with a particular focus on notions of the Anthropocene. I am interested in the universality of patterns and symmetries and how this iconographic resonance appears across cultures, in mathematics and in the natural world.
Recent exhibitions include work shown at Saatchi Gallery, London; 101Space, Zhengzou; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Pier Arts Centre, Orkney and State Museum for Urban Sculpture, St Petersburg. I have undertaken several large-scale public commissions and have permanent sculptures installed in prominent locations, including Musselburgh City Centre, Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen and Royal Observatory Edinburgh, where my work also forms part of the Crawford Library Collection. I was recently awarded a research grant by Arts Council England for a project working with urban clay from an archaeological excavation in central London. Currently I am doing a creative residency with geoarchaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology, examining layers below London through geological bore-hole samples. Originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, I am currently based in London, UK.
Upcoming Exhibition:
Earth Unwrapped, Pangolin London, Kings Place, 90 York Wy, London N1 9AG. January - June 2025
Education
2019 – 2020 Camberwell College of Art (UAL), MA Fine Art Drawing
2008 – 2012 Edinburgh College of Art, BA Honours Sculpture
Awards:
2024 IAA Grant for work with geological core samples and geoarchaeologists at MOLA
2022 SSA Engramme exchange award
2021 DYCP English Arts Council grant for project exploring London Clay
Public Artworks
2024 (ongoing) Silver City Architectural glasswork design for Aberdeen Market Shopping Centre, based on microscopic imaging of granite reclaimed from the old centre. Collaboration with artist Julian Stocks.
2019 (June) Sculpture Fleeting at Hazlehead Park, a memorial to the infant ashes scandal at Hazlehead crematorium commissioned by Aberdeen Council.
2018 (May) Sculpture Threshold at Edinburgh Royal Observatory, commissioned by University of Edinburgh and Royal Observatory Edinburgh for their new Higgs Centre for innovation. This project included research at CERN and a related project now included in the Crawford Library Collection.
2018 (June) and 2019 (August) Sculpture Musselburgh Archer and accompanying sculpture trail, commissioned by East Lothian Council
2015 (January) Public Artwork entitled Imprint for Edinburgh Napier University’s Fountainbridge halls of residence.
2014 (January) Public Artwork Tree of Knowledge installed at Edinburgh Napier University’s Fountainbridge halls of residence.
2009 (July – September) Working with the local community in Uru, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania on a project examining cultural understandings of art and site specificity, working with only locally available materials.