My work focuses on understanding ordinary human action as it is embodied in public spaces. How philosophical discourse explains human action and how imagery is used to describe human action in places like the street.

I recently completed a public art commission in the new Greenock Health and Care Centre. Key research for this work involved exploring the work of amateur French street photographer Eugene Méhat, who documented the streets of Greenock in the mid-sixties. In this work I used his and my own street photography of passers-by, to highlight ideas associated with the public presentation of the self.

In the past I have looked at the role played by human action in participatory art. My aim was to confirm that when analytical, phenomenological and sociological philosophies of actionmore...

2003 - 08 PhD. ‘Aesthetic Experience and Action in Participatory Art.’ The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
2003 - 05 Pg. Cert. Research Methods, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
2002 - 03 M.Sc. Computer Aided Building Design, Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
1990 - 92 M.A. Design, Robert Taylor Iron Founders Prize, Glasgow School of Art.
1986 - 90 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art. 2.1. Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art.