I grew up in Stirlingshire and moved to Aberdeen to study Painting at Gray’s School of Art. Graduating in 2022, my degree show work was selected for awards including the Aberdeen Artists Society Award, and the Gray’s Critical and Contextual Studies Dissertation Award.
My practice explores the webs of association that connect our past with our present, via memories attached to particular objects, habits, sensations, or rituals. The slightest taste or an indescribable shift in the weather is a thread that connects you to a moment years in the past. The work exhibited focuses particularly on such moments tied to groups of friends, and not knowing whether each person is tied by the same threads. I blend elements from a range of source material including memory and imagination, new and re-discovered photographs, found images, film and television, and non-visual material like music or text. Controlling transparency and textural finish enables some elements to be revealed where others have been glazed over or supplanted. One memory overlays another, while others are intertwined inseparably.
