Artist CV

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Education

  • 2016 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK, Master of Letters Fine Art Practice, Painting (Distinction)

  • 1983 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, BA Fine Art (cum laude)

  • 1980 Bennington College, Bennington Vermont, USA, BA Fine Art

Awards, Grants & Commissions

  • 2025 Jackson’s Art Prize, London, UK, Shortlisted

  • 2025 Limefield Mansion House, Scotland, UK, Private Commission

  • 2024 RSA Residency for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Awarded

  • 2021-22 Connect & Collaborate Grant, British Council & Creative Scotland, (Ecologies of Displacement), Scotland & Pakistan, Recipient

  • 2021 Open Fund for Individuals Grant, Creative Scotland, (MERZ Gallery), Sanquhar, Scotland, Awarded

Selected Solo & Small Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 Jackson’s Art Prize Finalist Exibition, Bankside Gallery, London

  • 2024 ETERNAL RETURN, The Scottish Arts Club, solo exhibition, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2022 Home and Beyond, Art Next Project Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan,group show, with Farrukh Addnan, Fatima Saeed, Zaira Ahmad Zaka
     
  • 2022 Ecologies of Displacement, Summerhall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, with Farrukh Addnan

  • 2022 Ecologies of Displacement, Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, with Farrukh Addnan

  • 2021 Storyforms, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK with Olivia Irvine & Linda Kosciewicz

  • 2014 Hag-ridden, SummerhallLower Church Gallery, Solo exhibition. Edinburgh, UK

Residencies

  • 2025 Royal Scottish Academy Residency for Scotland, 1 month on the isle of Lewis, collaboration with An Lanntair, Stornoway

  • 2023 Self-directed 2-month residency, Jacetania, NE Spain

  • 2021 – 22 Ecologies of Displacement 9-month International Residency between Pakistan and Scotland. Funded through British Council and Creative Scotland. Collaboration with artist Farrukh Addnan. One month travel to Pakistan. EOD a partnership between Koel Gallery, Karachi and Summerhall, Edinburgh

  • 2021 Creating a Pandemic Imaginary, MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, UK, 1 month residency

  • 2019 Taking Time/Prendendo Tempo, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy, one of six international artists selected for 3-week residency

  • 2016 Raiding the Past, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland. 1-week residency. GSA & The Royal College of Art, Den Hague, Netherlands

  • 2016 Dumfries House – 1-week residency. GSA, The Royal Drawing School

Group Exhibitions

  • 2026 This Year’s Model II, Studio 1.1 London, UK

  • 2025 Showroom, No31 Gallery, Duns, Scotland

  • 2025 Art Car Boot Sale, Patricia Fleming Gallery, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland

  • 2025 RSA 199th Annual Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 2024 Society of Scottish Artists 126th Annual Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • 2024 Art Car Boot Sale, Patricia Fleming Gallery, SWG3, Glasgow, Scotland

  • 2024 Now and next, Centenary Exhibition, Visual Art Scotland, Dalkeith Palace, UK

  • 2024 This Year’s Model II, Studio 1.1 London, UK

  • 2024 This Year’s Model II, Studio 1.1 London, UK

  • 2023 Installation, Niche Gallery, Curation Denise & Mark Zygadlo. Dumfries, Scotland
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  • 2023 This Year’s Model II, Studio 1.1 London, UK

  • 2022 Royal Scottish Academy 196th Annual, The Mound, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2021 Society of Scottish Artists 123rd Annual, The Mound, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2021 This Year’s Model,Studio 1.1 London, UK

  • 2020 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition (online) Edinburgh, UK

  • 2020 Landscape of Memory,(online exhibition & talks) Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan. with Ade Adesina, Farrukh Adnan, Naiza Khan, Marian Leven, Zara Mahmood, Michele Marcoux, Oliver Reed, Usman Saeed, Gill Tyson, Sohail Zuberi

  • 2019 This Year’s Model, Studio 1.1, Shoreditch, London, UK

  • 2018 Reuse, Reinvent, Reimagine, Gallery 23, Edinburgh Fringe 2018, UK

  • 2018 GYRE,TENT Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art. Installation, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2017 RSA Open, The Mound, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2017 Creative Reactions: Liminal State, Glasgow Trades Hall Gallery, UK

  • 2016 FLY, Visual Art Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2015 Fan of Memory/Profane Illuminations, Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2015 Black Cube Collective Group show, Gayfield Creative Space, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2014 Royal Scottish Academy Open, The Mound, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2013 blood/MarcyAv, a girl’s heart of darkness, Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2012 Royal Scottish Academy Open 2012, The Mound, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2011 Royal Scottish Academy Open2011, The Mound, Edinburgh, UK

  • 2010 Continental Drift, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK with poet Sheila Black