Artist, filmmaker and PhD researcher

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My practice and research centre upon embodied difference and collective care. Seeking to communicate through the filmic body, I utilise experimental and collaborative approaches to filmmaking to bring into being the unseen / unheard.

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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 Wellcome Trust, Glasgow Women's Library: Mexico City, 2023

SGSAH (AHRC) Engagement Award: Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY, 2023

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

Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Guthrie Award, 2021

Unlimited Emerging Artist Award, 2021

Stellar Quines / BOP: Research and Development, 2020

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

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Residencies: 

Cove Park: Associates Residency, 2024

Edinburgh Neuroscience: Our Minds Fellowship, 2024

Cove Park: SGSAH Residency, 2023

Hospitalfield: Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath, 2021

Summerhall: Lab Residency, Edinburgh, 2021

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

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Selected Screenings / Exhibitions / Conferences:

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh: Trading Zone, 2025

Southbank Centre, London: Unlimited on Screen, 2022, 2024

Gender, Genre and Moving Image Symposium, Durham: Speaker, 2024

The Developing Brain, Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh: Exhibitor and speaker, 2024

Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh: Removing Barriers Symposium, 2024

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

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

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Film Installation, 2023 

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

CCA, Glasgow: Within / Between Film Screening, 2022

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Spotlight Selection, 2022 

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

Summerhall, Edinburgh: Residency Film Screening, 2021

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

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

Curative Things: Medicine / Fashion / Art Symposium, 2021

On Transversality Conference: Film Screening, 2020

ArtWalk Projects, Edinburgh: Outdoor Film Festival, 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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