My practice began with wanting represent buildings and the space they inhabit. I amparticularly interested in Architecture and space, Space not as container but as the contained – the solid volume of the air defined by objects: Interior space open space or a very specific space such as a corner of a room, a window blind, the gaps between one room and another the way that walls meet at the top and sides, doorways, and corridors. I continue to explore these ideas of internal and external space as a way of comprehending notions of space and documenting the imagined and observed.

Throughout the work, the language, however formal is abstract. Working with layers sometimes only using one layer keeping the work pure, by editing, subtracting, adding with silkscreen and collage, I always strive to physically construct space within the composition of my work. The work revolves around a sense of history, of the spaces that inspire and the history of the journey making the work. Within the work the subject matter appears to enter the paper from the sides as though it is slipping in or out of view, leaving or entering the paper. 

Within the work the colours are continually overlaid, constructing with paint and print using different kinds of material; charcoal, graphite, using sources such as photocopier, drawings and photographs. I acknowledge sculpture in my work and aim to bring the outside space into my work. I work predominately with a build up of layers consisting of silkscreen, paint and pastels. This leads to scraping back and covering over until the paper or canvas becomes completely manipulated.

Colour is used in a subtle and structural way, I build up tonal variations and harmonies, and it relates to the structure, defines planes, suggests depth and contributes to overall composition.

 
Academic Qualifications

2002-2004             MA Printmaking                     Royal College of Art, London

1999-2002             BA Fine Art Printmaking        Grays School of Art, Aberdeen  (First class honours)

Permanent Collections:  Pallant House Gallery, Aberdeen Art Gallery

Private Collections: UK, USA, Iceland   

Awards

2009             Inverarity One to One Travel Award, Royal Glasgow Institute

2008             Glasgow Art Club Fellowship Award, Royal Glasgow Institute

2005             Joe Hargan Award Paisley Art Institute Glasgow

2004             Tim Mara Trust Award Royal College of Art

2003             Daler Rowney Drawing Prize Royal College of Art, London

2002             Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Award (3 month Scholarship to Florence)


Selected Exhibitions

2012           
Royal Scottish Academy Invited Artist

2011            
Royal Glasgow Institute Kelly Gallery, Abstracted Material
Foyer Gallery Aberdeen
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Drawing (on) Riverside
London Art Fair, Glasgow Print Studio

2010            
BP Atrium Gallery Aberdeen Art Gallery
RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow Seven Woman Artists
Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow Print Studio.
Open Eye Gallery, Abstract Edinburgh
St James Palace, Aberdeen, Cream
Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, Glasgow Print Studio Artists

2009            
Blackadder to Borland, Scottish Women Printmakers, Pallant House Gallery
Glasgow Art Fair. Glasgow Print Studio
London Art Fair, Glasgow Print Studio
Rodger Bilcliffe Gallery Glasgow
Blackheath Gallery London

2008             
Contained Glasgow Print Studio, Solo Show
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow Art Fair
The Art Movement, Glasgow Print Studio, London Art Fair

2007           
Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, London

            Blackheath Gallery London, 

            Glasgow Print Studio, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition

            Amber Roome, Edinburgh 2 person show with James Lumsden

2006             Partitions Glasgow Print Studio, Solo Show

2005             Singer and Friedlander Exhibition Invited Artist   

                     Blackheath Gallery London, Group Exhibition

 

Group Exhibitions

2009 Royal Glasgow Institute Exhibition

2008             Royal Glasgow Institute Exhibition

                     RGI Kelly Gallery, Royal Glasgow Institute

 2007             Aspect Prize Exhibition Paisley Art Centre

                      Heinzel Gallery, Aberdeen

 2006             Blindfolds, Print exchange USA-UK

                       Paisley Art Institute Glasgow

2005             Hamnavoe Gallery Aberdeen

Art Exposure Gallery Group Exhibition Glasgow

                    Paisley Art Institute Glasgow Annual Exhibition, Scotland

              Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London

              Mid City Place, Holborn London              Cubo Bianco Glasgow School of Art

2004             MA Show Upper Gulbenkien gallery Royal College of Art

                    Our Time Now Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London

2003             Past and Present, Strathearn Gallery, Crieff, Scotland

                     ex-Press Gulbenkien Galleries Royal College of Art, London

                     Royal College of Art Interim exhibition, London

                    New Graduates Leith Gallery, Edinburgh

 2002             Royal College of Art Print exhibition, London

                     Affordable Art Fair Battersea Park, London

                     Degree Show Grays School of Art, Aberdeen

                     Marshall Gallery Exhibition, Aberdeen

                     Aberdeen Artists Society exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery

                     Royal Scottish Academy, student exhibition McClellan Galleries, Glasgow