https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7642-2058
I am an artist and historian of early photography. In my practice I move across photography, writing and creative archival research processes to work cross-historically, re-touching the archive, to recover and repair marginalised histories.
In 2024 I completed my practice-led PhD project at Royal College of Art, where I researched the role of gender and class in early Scottish photography.
In 2024/2025 I undertook my postdoctoral studies in the USA. I was the Fedwa Malti-Douglas Fellow at the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum, Philadelphia. In 2025/2026 I was the Otlet Fellow at the Science History Institute, also in Philadelphia.
In 2025/26 I was also a research fellow at The University of Glasgow Library. I am currently a Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
I am working towards my first book on gender class and photographic invention in Scotland.
Contemporary fine art photography, moving image, feminist methods, gender, class, photographic invention, early photography (Scotland)
Small Grants
2025-26 Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
2025 Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
2024 Scottish Historical Review Bursary
2023 The Alasdair Ross Prize, Scottish History Society
Contemporary fine art photography, feminist methods in art practice, photographic history
I am the Year 4 Lead in Fine Art Photography.
