Curator, researcher and writer. Associate Faculty of the MLitt Curatorial Practice programme.

Together with Jessica Carden, she founded the curatorial project Mother Tongue. Since 2009, they have together produced exhibitions, film programmes, discursive events, essays and publications, working with galleries, museums, archives, festivals and national organisations, primarily in Scotland. Mother Tongue is currently working on an exhibition project for autumn 2019 with Edinburgh Printmakers.

She is a recent recipient of a Paul Mellon Centre Research Support grant, and an Art Fund New Collecting Award, in affiliation with Glasgow Museums. In March 2019, she received a Postdoctoral and Senior Scholar research fellowship from the Hauser & Wirth Institute NY, to study significant transitions in the practice of artist Donald Locke between 1972-1981.

Her interdisciplinary doctoral research examines the visual representations of artistic gymnastics. Curatorial projects responding to this have included discursive events (Flat Time House, London; CCA Glasgow), screening programmes (Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image; Glasgow Film Theatre), and 'New Order, Other Spaces,' a solo exhibition from artist Jo Longhurst as part of the 2018 European Sports Championships co-curated with Iliyana Nedkova.

She is co-convenor of the Invisible Knowledge initiative – originally established with Viviana Checchia, Curator of Public Engagement at Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, and researcher Emma Balkind – based at the CCA and supported by Glasgow School of Art. ‘Invisible Knowledge’ is a new group for independent researchers in the arts, primarily aimed at PhD students and early-career researchers, acting as a platform to give visibility and translate the groups’ work to new, public audiences. She is part of the organisational cohort behind the Tilting Axis Scottish Fellowship, a one-year research opportunity for a Caribbean-based practitioner designed in collaboration with the CCA Glasgow, David Dale Gallery and Hospitalfield, now entering into its second iteration.

She is currently a project board member of a successful Wellcome Trust bid, led the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh, bringing together three unique archives, exploring dance, movement, physical education and sport (Scottish Gymnastics, Margaret Morris International, and the Dunfermline Women’s College for Physical Education).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-8194