CV
Education + Qualifications
2019-2024 PhD, Practice as Research, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee (UoD), UK
2022 Associate Fellowship, Advance HE, UK
2018-2019 MFA with Merit, Art and Humanities, DJCAD, University of Dundee
2017-2018 Graduate Diploma, Advancing Socially Just Schools & Communities, University of Calgary, CA
2016-2017 Post Bachelors Certificate, Design Thinking for Innovation, University of Calgary, CA
2004-2008 BFA, Visual Arts, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, CA
Current Activities
2025-Present Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeship, Edwin Morgan Trust, Scotland | 12-months Poetry mentorship program sponsored by Edwin Morgan Trust.
2024-Present “Strange and Lonely Places”: Re-reading Hepworth from the North, Travel and Research project funded by Henry Moore Foundation, UK
2024-Present Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, PLaCE International Research Network
Selected Exhibitions + Curatorial Projects
Solo Exhibition (forthcoming), constellating with materials of the foreshore, Tower Foyer Gallery, UoD, Dundee, UK (2027)
Group Exhibition (forthcoming), Between Stone and Sun, Old Mill, Dundee, UK (2026)
Group Exhibition, Heroes: Archive to Artworks, Lamb Gallery, UoD, Dundee, UK
Solo Exhibition, deeper the shadows, brighter the light, WASPS Meadow Mill Space, Dundee, UK (2024)
Commission (Poetry), Maternal Mitochondria’s Public Spirit House Art Walk, Santa Fe, NM, USA (2024)
Group Exhibition, now & then: Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show, Dalkeith Palace, UK (2024)
Group Exhibition, DJCAD Research Expo, UoD, Dundee, UK (2024)
Collaboration + Short Residency, Reflections of Being, Isle of Skye, UK (2022-ongoing)
Pop-Up Exhibition, Printmaking, Artists’ Books, Landscape & Nature, UWE Bristol, UK (2023)
Group Exhibition, ORGANISMEN: Science & Life in Art, Nietzsche Society Conference, UoD (2022)
Group Exhibition (online selection), 197th RSA Annual Exhibition, UK
Screening + Group Exhibition, DRIFT Moving Image Exhibition SSA, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK (2022)
Group Exhibition, Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes, University Of The Arctic, online (2021)
Group Exhibition, River Deep, Mountain High - archives to artworks, Lamb Gallery, Dundee, UK (2020)
Curatorial Project + Group Exhibition, Arts + Humanities in the Community, UoD, UK (2019)
Collaborative Project, Elephants in the Room, University of Calgary Gallery, CA (2016)
Research Activities + Talks
Paper, ‘a return to the crook in my elbow’, Hydropoetry in Practice Symposium, Royal Holloway University of London and University of York, Hybrid, UK (2025)
Paper, ‘a gatherer in motion’, Energy-in-Motion: Climate emotion, energy futures, and the arts Conference, hosted by University of St Andrews, University of Otago, University of Dundee and Centre for Energy Ethics at V&A Museum, Dundee, UK (2025)
Paper, ‘Making-with the Foreshore: An Analogy for Place-Based Practice Research’, Islands Symposium: Island narratives, hosted by University of the Highlands and Islands, Hybrid (2025)
Paper, 'Further Into The Living Mountain', Art & Text Conference, Scottish Society of Art & Humanities, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (2025)
Poetry Commission, Maternal Mitochondria, Santa Fe, NM, USA (2024)
Paper, ‘land acknowledgement’, STATE OF PRINT: CONTESTED L̶A̶N̶D̶ ̶S̶P̶A̶C̶E̶ ̶P̶L̶A̶N̶E̶T̶̶ T̶I̶T̶L̶E̶ Symposium, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK (2024)
Lightening Talk, ‘Dear Barbara’, CHEAD Annual Conference, UoD, UK (2024)
Doctoral Researcher Committee, Member, SGSAH, UK (2021-2024)
Reading, Nature Poetry Nature Poetry Reading in the Museum, Dundee Women’s Festival, D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Dundee (2023)
Invited Speaker, Scotland’s Land Futures, Panel Discussion, Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures (2021)
Roundtable Participant, Ethics, Advocacy and Decolonizing Place-Based Research Symposia,
DJCAD and University of Minnesota, online (2021)
Paper, ‘wherever my feet take me’, Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford, Ireland (20210
Research Funding + Awards
2024-2025 Travel and Research Grant | Henry Moore Foundation, UK
2024 Award, Research and training at DCA Print Studio | VACMA, Creative Scotland, UK
2020 Explore and Create Grant | Canada Council for the Arts, CA
2019 Award, The Duncan of Jordanstone Citizenship within the Academic Community | UoD, Dundee, UK
2019 Award, Duncan of Jordanstone Masters Award | The Arts Society Fife, UK
Residencies + Apprenticeships
2026 Weekend Residential, 'Permeable Transitions' led by Helen Cammock, LUX Scotland, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK
2026 Elevate Leadership ECR Programme, British Academy + WELLCOME Trust, UK | 6-months
2025-Present Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeship | Edwin Morgan Trust, Scotland
2024 Art Residency, WASPS Meadow Mill Project Space, one month, Dundee, UK
2021 Art Residency, Biophilium Artists Research Program, two-week virtual residency, CA
2019 Art Residency, one month, Isle of Iona, UK
Selected Employment + Experience
2024-Present Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, PLaCE International Research Network
2024-2025 Workshop Tutor, Creative Writing, School of Humanities, UoD, UK
2019-2024 Guest Lecturer for Graduate and Undergraduate programmes, DJCAD, UoD, UK
2022-2024 Research Host, Biophilium Artists Research Programme
2021-2022 DJCAD Postgraduate Researcher Representative, UoD, UK
May 2021-May 2022 AHRI Research Fellow, Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures, Dundee, UK
Feb 2021-Jan 2022 Research Assistant + Digital Media Manager, The Rural Reimagined Project, UoD, UK
Nov 2020-Nov 2021 Research Assistant, Practice Research Assembly for Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities (SGSAH), UoD, UK
2018-2019 Gallery Assistant, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK
2011-2018 Student Admission + Recruitment Officer, Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts formerly known as ACAD), Calgary, CA
2009-2011 Manager of Visitor Services + Assistant Curator, The Art Gallery of Calgary, CA
Professional Affiliations
I am an active member of various arts and research organisations including the British Academy ECRN, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network Lab, PLaCE International, Paul Mellon Emerging Researchers in British Art, British Art Network (BAN), and GENERATORprojects.