Education and employment

Established ceramics studio in Edinburgh.

Post-Graduate Diploma, Edinburgh College of Art.

BA(Hons) Ceramics, Edinburgh College of Art.

Lecturer in Ceramics, Edinburgh College of Art.

Appointed Specialist Adviser (Crafts) Scottish Arts Council

Lecturer in Ceramics Summer School, Edinburgh College of Art.

Commissions and Awards

Selected to represent British ceramics - residency FuLe  Fuping, China International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China. 

Awarded First Prize - 2nd International Keramikbiennale, Kapfenberg, Austria.

Award for research & individual development, Scottish Arts Council.

Commission - 13 Vessel series for ‘Prime’, DCA inaugural exhibition, Dundee Contemporary Arts.

International Residency Program - represented Europe, Takeo City, Kyushu, Japan.

Awarded Fellow membership Craft Potters Association of Great Britain, Craft Potters Association.

Award for Individual Development (travel), Scottish Arts Council.

Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition Award Ceramic Contemporaries 1, V&A Museum, London.

International Exhibitions

British Pavilion - FuLe, China International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China.

SOFA Chicago (Scottish Gallery) Chicago, USA

Coloured Porcelain - St. Joseph Gallery, Leeuwarde Leeuwarde, The Netherlands

SOFA Chicago (Scottish Gallery) Chicago, USA

Decorative Arts Los Angeles, USA

New York Ceramics New York, USA

duo- exhibition - Galerie le Vieux- Bourg Lonay, Switzerland           

Group exhibition - Art Spectra, Vienna Vienna, Austria           

SOFA New York 2002 (Nancy Margolis Gallery) New York USA           

Group Exhibition - Carlin Gallery Paris, France

SOFA Chicago 2001 (Scottish Gallery) Chicago, USA.

International Porcelain - Gallerie le Vieux-Bourg, Lonay, Switzerland.

Biennale International World Ceramic Exposition, Soeul, Korea.

International Keramikbiennale, Kapfenberg, Kapfenberg, Austria.

Exhibition of European ceramics -representing UK Gallery, Yufuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Crosscurrents - exhibition of American & British Ceramics ‘Freehand’ - Los Angeles USA.

Scotland House Exhibition - Scotland Europa Offices, Brussels, Belgium.

Edinburgh Makers - National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.

51st International Competition for Ceramic Art, Faenza, Italy.

European Ceramics ’99 ‘Westerwald Prize’, Westerwald, Germany

Gallery Ceramic Arts - ‘Three of a different Kind’ Keramic aus England, Vienna. Austria.

Invited International Artists - Takeo Culture Hall, Takeo, Kyushu, Japan.

Residency Exhibition - Takeo Culture Hall, Takeo, Kyushu, Japan.

‘Flair des Kunsthandwerks’ - representing UK, Munich, Germany.

Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Exhibition, Aukland, New Zealand.

Biennale Internationale De Ceramique D’Art, Vallauris, France.

Solo Exhibition - Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany.

Solo Exhibition - The Convention Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

Selected Solo Exhibitions - UK

Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

Oxford Gallery, Oxford.

Candover Gallery, Alresford.

Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow.

Oxford Gallery, Oxford.

Contemporary Ceramics (duo), London.

Scottish Gallery (duo), Edinburgh.

Selected Group Exhibitions - UK

Hue, Line and Form - curated by Peter Ting & Brian Kennedy - CAA , London

The Cutting Edge, Scotland’s Contemporary Craft - National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh

toured to:- 

Dick Institute, Kilmarnock; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen

16th Anniversary ceramic show - Scottish Gallery Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

The New White, Contemporary Studio Porcelain, V&A Museum, London.

Inaugural Exhibition, Prime, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee.

Winter White, European Ceramics, Knaresborough.

Porcelain Cargo - international porcelain artists, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

Scottish Contemporary Crafts, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Gala Exhibition, Contemporary Ceramics, London.

Fired With Enthusiasm, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen.

10 Years Crafts - Scottish Gallery Edinburgh

Ceramic Contemporaries 2, V&A Museum, London.

Ceramic Contemporaries 1, V&A Museum, London.

Work in permanent Collections

British Pavilion - FuLe, China International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China

WOCEK, World Ceramic Centre, Kyonggi Province, Korea

Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Victoria & Albert Museum, V&A Museum, London.

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy.

Takeo City Culture Hall, Takeo, Kyushu, Japan.

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen.