PhD Candidate at DJCAD, University of Dundee (UoD) Supervisors: Professor Graham Fagen and Professor Mary Modeen.  Year 4 of a 5-year part time PhD.

Title- Hybrid States: A practice-led exploration examining the ways in which artists experiment and improvise with materials, making-processes and concepts in the creation of artworks.

RESEARCH AWARDS & FUNDING

2015-2016

Co-Editor of 60×60 publication a critical record of sixty artists’ response to as part of an international travelling exhibition to sixty countries and launched in Gallerie Epruve, Antwerp, Belgium.

2014-2015

Co-Editor and Co-curator of 11:11 Nove Mosty / New Bridges publication. Supported by the Charge d’Affairs of the British Embassy, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Fine Arts Fund, Slovakia in collaboration with Society of Scottish Artists and the Association of Slovak Printmakers. Casino Publishes, Bratislava ISBN: 978-80-971656-9-7

2013 -2014

Creative Scotland International Partnerships & Networks Award for SSA Society of Scottish Artist’s for ‘Bridges Scotland’ exchange and exhibition.

2011-2014

Co-Founder Trigger Research Network: ‘Developing Practice in Participatory Settings’ as part of ArtWorks Scotland Award for Creative Scotland, AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council and Paul Hamlin Foundation.