My practice is based around discarded, donated and overlooked materials - objects shaped by their historical, cultural and political context. Through these remnants, I explore how value is ascribed: how society, tradition, and utility define worth.
Most of my works use multiples; items with a shared history, aesthetic or construction, and I arrange these items into ordered compositions that echo systems found in both human society and the natural world. I employ repetition and structure to reveal the silent order within chaos and to examine how meaning emerges from the arrangement of individual parts—mirroring both societal constructs and physical laws. At the heart of this investigation lies a deep interest in the universality of patterns and symmetries. These forms resonate across mathematics, the natural sciences, and global visual cultures, creating a shared iconography that transcends boundaries.
I adopt a minimalist approach, aiming to illuminate rather than impose and seeking to highlight what is already there, rather than manipulate materials to create a fixed meaning. My work often questions the arbitrary nature of meaning and order, offering space for viewers to consider the connections between things: between the industrial and the natural, entropy and structure, the past and potential future, the man-made and the organic, exploring how these forces coexist and shape one another.
My recent works engage with the Anthropocene and the concept of technofossils—the geological strata formed by human-made materials. Drawing on ideas from geoarchaeology, I examine the traces we leave behind, our impact materialised in objects that may long outlive us, and how these relate to larger themes.
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 dialogues with other professions. These projects have included working with physicists from CERN, chemists, engineers, and mathematicians from the University of Edinburgh, geoarchaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology, and soil scientists from Cranfield University. Through these dialogues, I aim to foster new ways of seeing, thinking, and making—illustrating how art can act as a bridge between disciplines, and a space where complex, often uncomfortable, questions can be asked.
Recent exhibitions include work shown at Saatchi and Pangolin 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 awarded a research grant by Arts Council England in 2021 for a project working with urban clay from an archaeological excavation in central London. I recently concluded 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.
Current Exhibition:
ArtHub Gallery as part of Deptford X Art Festival, 11th - 27th July 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.