EDUCATION
2006 - 07 University of the Arts, London PG Cert
1991 - 93 Royal College of Art London MA Communication Art & Design
1985 - 88 Chelsea School of Art London BA Hons. Illustration
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
2015 - 2021 Board of Directors, ATLAS Arts, Skye
2015 - Scottish Contemporary Art Network
Visual Arts Scotland
2001 - Scottish Artists Union
AWARDS
2020 Mandate award Scottish Contemporary Art Network/Engage Scotland
2018 Cairngorms Residency Inshriach Bothy, Bothy Project
2016 Trelex - Amazon Residency Tambopata Reserve, Madre de Dios, Peru
2015 Creative Scotland/CNES Visual Arts & Crafts Award
2012 John Moore’s Painting Prize: Selected for stage 2
2010 Creative Scotland / CNES Development Award
2008 3 Islands International Artists Workshop Triangle Trust
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Island Time Bermondsey Project Space, London - Curated by Mel Gooding
2015 Refugium Jersey Art Centre, Channel Islands
Biomass (NU20072014) Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Centre
2008 Out of the Woods Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, N.Y. USA
2007 Transparent Eye Atrium Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Lions & Unicorns White Conduit Gallery, London
2016 Neo-Neo Extreme Past Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
So Much Depends Upon Parliament Building Holyrood, Edinburgh
Tent Gallery, Edinburgh
2013 Fragility of Flight 2 Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Centre
2011 sOOt OO Gallery, Kingston N.Y. USA
2007 A Confluence Logbook/Artists project with Ian Stephen & Saki Satom
2006 Inaugural Paper Gallery, Kingston, N.Y. USA
2005 Landmarks Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Centre
TEACHING
2018 Sculpture/Spatial Studies Visiting artist/lecturer B.A. Fine Art, UHI
2015 The Royal College of Art Visiting artist
2014 West Highland College, Skye Visiting artist
2012 - 14 University of Highlands & Islands Fine Art B.A. Hons. Course Leader Uist Campus
2010 Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE Visiting artist/lecturer
2007- 12 University of Highlands & Islands Lecturer, Fine Art
2006 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing Visiting lecturer
1998 British Council, Mahraja Sayajirao University, Vadodra, India Visiting lecturer
1996 - 06 Glasgow School of Art Department of Communication Art & Design, Head of Illustration
1994 - 96 Glasgow School of Art Department of Communication Art & Design, Lecturer
1997 - 00 Edinburgh College of Art External Supervisor, M.A. Illustration
1997 - 00 University of Central Lancashire External Examiner, B.A. Hons. Illustration
1994 - 95 Anglia Polytechnic University Lecturer/Drawing
1989 - 91 H.M.P. Brixton, London Drawing & Painting Tutor
CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
2020 The Multiple Values of Nature We Are The Curious, Bristol
2019 The Rural Assembly: Contemporary Art & Spaces of Connection Whitechapel Gallery, London
2018 Green Arts Conference : Creative Carbon Scotland ATLAS Arts Green Champion
2016 Social Intentions: On the use of social engagement within art institutions CCA, Glasgow
2015 Gather, Connect, Inspire ATLAS Arts, Isle of Skye
2011 The Animal Gaze Returned London Metropolitan University
WORKSHOPS & RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024-25 Turps Banana Correspondence Course Painters mentoring scheme
2018 In Conversation with Mel Gooding Bermondsey Project Space
2015 Metropolitan Field Studies: Visual research project Royal College of Art
Towards an Ecology of Drawing Artist’s Workshop Skye
2014 Beyond Location Traveling Dialogues, event for ‘Broad Reach/ ATLAS Arts
Power of the Sea Royal West of England Academy
2013 We Are Northern Lights Co-Director, Collaborative documentary film
Out of Place: Public discussion for Time Span/Broad Reach, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Centre
In Conversation with Gwen Hardie University of the Highlands & Islands Event
2010 Everywhere & Nowhere Environmental workshop, Faculty of Creative Arts UWE
Locality Environmental workshop, Faculty of Creative Arts UWE
1995 - 06 Environmental field trip - Leader Glasgow School of Art
1999 Points of Departure Project & exhibition in collaboration with Railtrack/GSA Curator
1995 The Artificial Horizon and Eccentric Ladder Lecture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Glasgow Film Theatre-Organiser
1993 Inside Out: Exhibition of work by men in H.M.P. Brixton Royal College of Art London Curator
SELECTED WRITING
2019 Catching Fish in a Different Stream: The creative work of Jan Krul Published in the Netherlands, 2020
2015 untitled fragments in acid green and Proceedings Of The Society Niall Macdonald & Bobby Niven, Scottish Arts Review
2014 Art, the thing that makes life more interesting than art Press review of Vija Celmins Tate Artist’s room
2011 A Wealth of Gestures: George Rowlett’s North Uist works Catalogue Essay Art Space Gallery London ISBN 978-0-9563072-8-6
2010 Experience & Remembering: Donald Ferguson, the late works - Taobh an Iar ISBN 978-0-953814-4-3
2008 A Human Force in Nature:Andy Goldsworthy in North Uist Press article
2004 Of Atmosphere and Otherness: Everything Remains Catalogue Essay, Gareth Reid Gallery N. Ireland
2001 An Opportunity to Explore: Joe Concra Paintings Catalogue Essay Marist College N.Y. USA
REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST