Continually moving between sculptural forms, printmaking and drawing, my practice explores ways of breaking, dissecting, uncovering and redefining objects and patterns. 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. Driven by curiosity, I have a strong interest in the intersection between art and science, particularly looking at the edges, the places where discourse and disciplines overlap. Many of my projects are developed through 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. Recent works look at the legacy of enlightenment and industrialisation and how entrenched patterns of thinking shape social value systems. Utilising the inherent magic and poetry in the unseen systems that underpin our world, I explore the edge between chaos and order, looking for patterns of how things interrelate culturally, geologically, politically and geographically.
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. Originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, I am currently dividing my time between Edinburgh and London, UK.
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
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.