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Glasgow Zine Festival May 2026. It was so fun making these zines that were taken to the Glasgow Zine Festival by the Highland Zine Bothy which that had a table at Tramway.

1+1 Exhibition May 23 to May 26 2026

This was an opportunity to coordinate and help curate an exhibition with a group of 22 artists in an Outer Spaces Studio, run by Circus Artspace. We need more of these opportunities in Inverness, which help to create connections between local Highland Artists.

I was recently in my studio space and have not given up on getting these larger pieces exhibited one day, even if I have to make it happen myself!

Inverness Museum and Gallery Highland Graduate Showcase 2026

I really enjoyed this exhibition in my adopted home city of Inverness. It was a chance to invite the public to remake the sculpture and I also got to run a workshop for adults and visit a nursery with the loose parts.

Smithton Primary School - Nursery - April 2026

Scottish Society Artists, Annual Exhibition - Royal Scottish Academy 11 Jan to 4 Feb 2026

It was great to have a large piece of sculpture in the RSA as part of my student SSA Award.

This has become a long term project making loose parts from packaging found in the domestic space. It's feels good to be working with materials that would usually end up in the bin and extending their life so that they can be used in and outside the Exhibition space.

VAS - The Thread That Pulls

6 December 2025 to 2 January 2026 - Royal Scottish Academy. Edinburgh

Sculpture RSA Gallery

Sculpture standing with other artists work in Exhibition on the back wall

sculpture

Visual Art Scotland and Hidden Door Exhibition - Edge of Matter

25th to 28th September 2025 - The Paper Mill - Edinburgh

I have really enjoyed installing and exhibiting my work as part of this exhibition. The Paper Mill venue has a really good atmosphere and it has been an interesting experience setting up in such an unusual space. The knitting was done by Betty Johnson aged 95. Our one and only collaboration as sadly she died in May 2025.

Making with multiples - woollen gloves (Betty Johnson), cups, straws, plasticine.

My mum died on 28 May 2025 and it has been important to use the gloves that she made as a material for working through her loss and memory. The sculptures were inspired by conversations with older people, clinging on to the last remaining bank on their high street. Their lives become increasingly overtaken by a virtual world and they fall beyond societal structures, losing their independence and agency

Degree Show 2025 - Moray School of Arts

There was a real buzz at the show and I really enjoyed that so many people turned out for the opening night of the exhibition. I am really fascinated by the social and learning opportunities that I see in my work as a wide range of visitors my gallery space to interact with the loose parts and each other socially.

Loose Part Sculpture in the Gallery Space

Taking loose parts sculpture into Performance

Orkney - UHI Island Exchange Residency

An opportunity to collaborate with artists and students through making film, sound, performance and printmaking.

Invisible Structures

Stop Motion Movie using Motif that I use for vulnerability

Taking the gallery to the kids and the kids to the gallery

I have learned so much from facilitating play opportunities for children over the years and it has been such a privilege to go back to my old primary school and film them playing and exploring my sculptural pieces that have been inspired by loose parts theory (Simon Nicholson, 1971). It feels so natural to be taking sculpture from the gallery and putting it into a school. It brings it alive in a different way.

Taking loose parts sculpture into Smithton Primary School

It was great to run a workshop with P4 Pupils from Smithton Primary School. We made sculptures, drawings and performance.

Taking loose parts sculpture out into the community - Culloden Battlefield 2025.

It has been really interesting to build up links with Culloden Battlefield through the loose parts sculpture. The sculpture has now 21 loose parts made from wood and bed struts and has enabled me to take up opportunities to take it out in the community. Members of the public are able to interact with the sculpture and see the loose parts sculpture move and change shape.

Living in the Highlands has given me the opportunity to develop a walking practice. My daily forays into the local woodlands has enabled me to make outdoor sculptures that evolve over time and take colours and textures indoors to make abstract works.

Awkward Objects Exhibition - Telford Outer Spaces Studios, Inverness.

It was great to be a part of this collaborative exhibition, where we searched our cupboards for objects that still deserve to come out and play and collaborate with each other. 16 artists collaborated in this event and there was a real buzz about putting on something that was a little less traditional in Inverness.

20:20 International Print Exchange 2024- Highland Print Studios

I was delighted to be a part of this International Print Exchange Exhibtion with the Highland Print Studios. I made a series of 20 etchings around the theme of Invisible Structures.

Bin Shed Gallery -

Art Students Claire Gordon and Jan McCormack have been working in collaboration with Scottish Canals to open up an Outdoor Pop Up Gallery in Inverness. The students who are studying towards a Fine Art Degree, at Moray School of Art, Elgin are both interested in making sculpture using everyday objects and found materials. Constantly on the look out for unusual spaces to showcase their work the students were delighted when Scottish Canals lent them their disused bin shed for the day. The debut opening of the Bin Shed Gallery on Sunday 8th September attracted a steady stream of visitors and the two students were so delighted with the response to their work that they are planning further pop up events in the future.