I studied Fine Art on the innovative four year Honours degree course at Kings College, Durham University (now Newcastle University), taught by Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore and Louisa Hodgson.

Now based in Edinburgh - exhibiting locally, nationally and internationally, for some years my overarching project has been This Time in History, identifying critical moments in contexts of geo-social justice, contemporary conflicts, migration and displacement. Highly researched and edited, and communicating by a range of routes, formats range from works that can be held in the hand to room-sized installations and have been exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the V&A London, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the British School at Rome and Goldsmiths College, London.

Recent solo exhibitions were held at the V&A, London, 2014-2015, and at Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2017. New works are on-going. Paintings exhibited at the LYC Cumbria (solo, 1981), and at the 369 Gallery, Edinburgh (solo, 1989), as well as current works, are increasingly attracting interest from young artists, researchers and others.

A survey book* contextualising several decades of artistic production was launched at Glasgow Women’s Library on 7 September 2019, along with ‘intimations and interventions from the oeuvre’, installed throughout the Library. This was followed by book launches at Newcastle University on Wednesday 16 October (- the related exhibition My Off-Piste Artist Room ran until 30 October, in the Long Gallery, Fine Art Department Newcastle University), and Goldsmiths, University of London, exhibition preview and book launch on 14 November.

I’m honoured and excited to have been awarded a place on the Art360 Scotland programme, and look forward to organising and conserving my artistic legacy with the help of expert professional advice and support.

The establishment of the archive will enable visitors to be welcomed to My Off-Piste Artist Room (an artist initiative, visitors by invitation), for guided tours, group discussions and individual research.

*supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland