CV
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Education + Qualifications
2019-2023 PhD, Practice as Research, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee (UoD), UK
2018-2019 MFA with Merit, Art and Humanities, DJCAD, University of Dundee
2017-2018 Post Bachelors 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
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Current Activities
2024-2025 (Forthcoming) “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
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Selected Research Activities + Talks
Art Residency, one month, Meadow Mill Curatorial Committee, UK (2024)
Sited Collaboration, Reflections of Being, Isle of Skye, UK (2022-ongoing)
Poetry Commission, Maternal Mitochondria, Santa Fe, NM, USA (2024)
Performed 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)
Pop-Up Exhibition, Printmaking, Artists’ Books, Landscape & Nature, UWE Bristol, UK (2023)
Group Exhibition, ORGANISMEN: Science & Life in Art, Nietzsche Society Conference, UoD (2022)
Screening + Group Exhibition, DRIFT Moving Image Exhibition SSA, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK (2022)
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)
Group Exhibition, Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes, University Of The Arctic, online (2021)
Performed Paper, ‘wherever my feet take me’, Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford, Ireland (20210
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)
Curatorial Project, Traditions Illuminated: Celebrating the Halls, assistant-curated, The Art
Gallery of Calgary (AGC), Calgary, CA (2011)
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Research Funding + Awards
2024-2025 (Forthcoming) Travel and Research £2,500 Grant, Henry Moore Foundation, UK
2024 Award £750, Research and training at DCA Print Studio, VACMA | Creative Scotland UK
2020 Explore and Create Grant $5000CAD, Canada Council for the Arts, CA
2019 Award, The Duncan of Jordanstone Citizenship within the Academic Community, Dundee, UK
2019 Award, Duncan of Jordanstone Masters Award (£1000), The Arts Society Fife, UK
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Residencies
2021 Art Residency, Biophilium Artists Research Program, two-week virtual residency, CA
2019 Art Residency, one month, Isle of Iona, UK
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Selected Employment + Experience
2024-Present Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, PLaCE International Research Network
2019-Present Guest Lecturer for Graduate and Undergraduate programmes, UoD, UK
2022-2024 Research Host (short-term), Biophilium Artists Research Programme
​2021-2022 DJCAD Postgraduate Researcher Representative, UoD, UK
Oct 2022-May 2023 ACE Junior Teacher, Academy of Creative Education
May 2021-May 2022 AHRI Research Fellow, Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures, Dundee, UK
Feb 2021-Jan 2022 Research Assistant, 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
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Professional Affiliations
I am an active member of various arts and research organisations including the Landscape Research Group, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network Lab, PLaCE International, Paul Mellon Centre Early Career Researcher Network, British Art Network (BAN), Society of Scottish Artists, Visual Arts Scotland, and GENERATORprojects.