https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3189-332X
I am a painter, researcher, and lecturer on the MLitt Contemporary Art Practice programme and the Master of Fine Art. My research and practice examine the shifting relationship between representation and abstraction through painting, with a particular focus on landscape, memory, time, and space. I am interested in how painting can hold unstable and layered forms of experience, where place is not fixed or descriptive but constructed through perception, imagination, and material process.
My work often begins from landscape, but moves through fragmentation, interruption, and erasure. Through gestural mark making, layered surfaces, and partial concealment, I explore how painting can register traces of both lived experience and imagined space. Literature and language also inform my approach, particularly in relation to narrative, displacement, and the emotional charge carried by place.
A central concern in my recent research is the relationship between landscape and belonging. This has been shaped by my experience of living between cultures and by questions of how place is negotiated through memory, estrangement, and attachment. My ongoing projects consider how fragmented visual structures might reflect these conditions, and how painting can create a space in which the personal, cultural, and spatial intersect.
I hold a PhD in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Alongside my studio practice, my research are closely connected through shared concerns with material thinking, open ended practice, and the role of provisionality in contemporary art.
landscape, memory, material thinking, studio practice, literature, provisionality
Hope Scott Trust 2024
Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards 2024
The Eaton Fund 2024
Hahnemühle Fund 2024
Wasps Arts 2024
Carol Rhodes Bursary 2023, Glasgow School of Art/ Carol Rhodes Archive
