Artist, filmmaker and PhD researcher

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My research practice centres on themes of care, control and health inequalities. 

Working collaboratively with family, friends, community groups and artists to explore lived experiences of embodied difference, illness and disability, the projects shared here seek to communicate with, through and between bodies, so that I may feel with you.

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Qualifications:

Edinburgh College of Art:

SGSAH (AHRC) funded PhD candidate (current)

MScR Interdisciplinary Creative Practices (Distinction) 2020 

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Awards / Delegations:

Unlimited / British Council International Awards, Partnering with Wellcome Trust and Glasgow Women's Library: Collaboration with Ana García Jácome, Mexico City, November 2023

SGSAH (AHRC) Engagement Award: Specialist Film Training at Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY, May 2023

Unlimited / British Council: No Limits Festival, Berlin, 2022

Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Guthrie Award, 2021

Unlimited Emerging Artist Award, 2021

Unlimited Development / Alumni Bursaries, 2021, 2023

Stellar Quines / BOP: Research and Development, February 2020

Glasgow Women's Library / British Council: YoYP Delegate at Women of the World, Brazil, 2018

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Residencies: 

Cove Park: SGSAH Residency, August 2023

Hospitalfield: Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath, August 2021

Summerhall: Lab Residency, Edinburgh, July 2021

British Council / Creative Scotland: Collaborative Residency, São Paulo, Brazil, March 2020

Wasps, Briggait: 3-month Residency, Glasgow, 2018

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Selected Screenings / Exhibitions / Conferences:

Forthcoming: Unlimited on Screen, Southbank Centre: Screening, September, 2024

Removing Barriers: Disability and Accessibility in the Creative Sector Symposium, Dovecot Studios: May 2024

Glasgow Women's Library: Film Screening / Q+A, March 2024

Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City: Film Screening / Q+A, November 2023

Cultura Claustro, Mexico City: Film Screening / Q+A, November 2023

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Film Installation, May 2023 

Body On & On Festival, Beijing: Film Screening / Q+A, April 2023 

Unlimited Festival, Southbank Centre: Film Programme, September, 2022

Within / Between, CCA, Glasgow: Glasgow Zine Fest Film Screening, July 2022

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Spotlight Selection, April 2022 

Royal Scottish Academy: Annual Exhibition, April, May, June 2022

Stills Gallery, Edinburgh: Film Screening / Q+A, March 2022 

Biscuit Tin Film Festival: Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh December 2021

Risky Bodies: Summerhall, Edinburgh, Film Screening, November 2021

Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference: Film Screening / Q+A, June 2021

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF): Film Screening, May 2021

Royal Scottish Academy: Annual Exhibition, April, May 2021

NNMHR Congress 2021 (In)Visibility: Film Screening / Panel Discussion, April 2021

FilmMedicine Research Network: Presentation / Screening, March 2021

Curative Things: Medicine / Fashion / Art Symposium, February 2021

On Transversality Conference: Film Screening December 2020

ArtWalk Projects: Outdoor Film Festival, Edinburgh, October 2020

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Publications:

Chapter in Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine, Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body, 2023

Decorating Dissidence Journal: Publication in Wearable Art Issue, February 2021

The Polyphony: Essay Publication of 'Exploring Care through Creative Collaboration', April 2021

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Teaching / Community:

GMAC Filmmaker Mentoring: Little Pictures programme, 2023

Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: Multi-Sensory Cultures Tutor, 2021, 2022

Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh: FilmMedicine Tutor, 2020, 2022

Impact Arts, Glasgow: Workshop Facilitator, 2018 - 2019

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Training:

Disability Equality Training, First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Autism Awareness, Child Protection, Dementia Awareness

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