Forth Flora: A Study in Porcelain This is a commission for the new Haematology Wing at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, which opened in May 2021. The brief was to explore the landscape, ecology and heritage of the Firth of Forth. The work comprises of a set of...
Herbarium Ongoing artistic research at the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh gives me complete access to their huge collection of pressed plants specimens and impressive carpological collection. This provides me with endless inspiration and I have...
Spirit Collection I am fascinated by the spirit collections of pickled flowers and fruit that you see in national collections and herbaria. These are plant specimens that are too fragile to be pressed and dried so are instead stored in alcohol within glass jars. In...
Still This installation is about the memory of a common garden potting shed. I love to plant seeds and watch them grow; especially that moment when all the little pots are neatly lined up, each with a thriving, growing seedling inside. Imagine if you could freeze that...
Think Plastic: Materials & Making In 2019 I was one of four artists invited to take part in an amazing project which brought us together with scientists from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh to experiment with the possibilities of...
