I am grateful to Marchmont House for the invitation to take up a commission residency for the month of April 2023. After a busy 18 months, I am looking forward to spending time in the beautiful environment of Marchmont House, discovering new directions of travel in my own work, and exploring the house and collections. […]
Artlink – St Johns Hospital
A residency for Artlink Edinburgh & The Lothians at St Johns Hospital in Livingston, working with patients and staff to generate work that would in some way alter and enliven specific spaces around the hospital. These included, The Mcmillan Daycare Centre, The Gym in Ward 17, The Psychology Department Meeting Room, The St Johns Gallery, […]
Yorkshire Arts Space – New Manor Ware
New Manor Ware is a bespoke table setting designed especially for the Banqueting Room of the Manor Lodge Turret House developed in response to the Yorkshire Artspace Ceramic Residency program based at their Manor Oaks Ceramic Studio and on site at Sheffield Manor Lodge. During the 17th century, local potter John Fox set up a […]
Fife Contemporay Art & Craft – Buckhynd Braes Bools
Fife Contemporary Art & Craft invited me to take up one of three residencies exploring the Fife coastal path supported by Celebrating Fife 2010. Based at Buckhaven Community Centre I worked with users of the Buckhaven Community Pottery and CLEAR to make contemporary versions of ceramic carpet bowls, also known as ‘Piggies’, which were traditionally […]
Covepark
In May 2008 I was awarded the SAC Crafts Residency at Covepark, allowing me to spend three months developing new work for the exhibitions Making Spaces and Objects of touch and travel… Towards the end of the residency period a seminar day was held for a group of invited artists, curators, researchers and writers which […]