Discarded treasures

Surreal soft sculptures


EXHIBITIONS

 

I am very pleased and honoured to have had my work in the following exhibitions across the world.


2023

11th International Mini Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition “Scythia” -  June 6 - 20,  Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine - Interview with the curators


2022


Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships-  silver trophy, Joensuu, Finland

 

2021


The Forthline Project - three individual pieces, Coburg Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Fife Ecology Centre, Scottish Seabird Centre, Scotland

 

Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships -  only workshop relating my experience of participating in the 2019 HMKWC, Joensuu, Finland

 

2019


Elephant in the Room - March, Coburg Gallery, Leith, Edinburgh, with Frayed Edges


Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships -  I was the first ever to perform in the Championships - Joensuu, Finland


2018


Idol, I doll, Aye Doll - 5-13 May, Thomsons Tower, Dr Neil's Gardent, Edinburgh, with Frayed Edges


Reflection: Contemporary Portraiture- 13 - 27 April - Surface Gallery, Nottingham NG1 1DL

 

threads -  *espaciogallery - 159 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG

 

threads -  Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh

 

2017


Guido's Artisans - Lindores Abbey Distillery, Fife, with Frayed Edges


8th International Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Textile Art “Scythia” -  June 19 - July 2, Kherson, Ukraine
July 15-30,  Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine

 

Contemporary Art Practice @ LSA end of year exhibition, Patriothall Gallery,

 

transFORM @ the Meffan Gallery,  Forfar

 

Guido's Garden - Iona Gallery, Kingussie - with Frayed Edges

 

2016

Transformation -  Cornerstone Gallery, Milton Keynes

 

transFORM @ Lochgelly Centre,  Lochgelly


transFORM @ Rothes Halls,   Glenrothes


Toaty Wee - Visual Artist Unit, Glasgow


Art in Granton - Granton:hub, Edinburgh


2015

 transFORM @ RGU  - Aberdeen School of Business, Robert Gordon University

 

Guido's Garden, exhibition with Frayed Edges group, with guest artist India Flint, Patriothall Gallery


transFORM - Transforming the world though ingenuity, the Barony Centre, West Kilbride

 

2014

transFORM, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh - group exhibition with Keiko Mukaide, Robert Mach and David Henderson

 

Identity - Piecing it togeher, exhibition with Frayed Edges group, Patriothall Gallery

 

Eros: Expression of Desire, A/NT Gallery, Seattle, USA

 

2013

 

2012

Wabi-Sabi, exhibition with Frayed Edges group, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Festival of Erotic Arts, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh

 

2011

Small works exhibition, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh

 

 

2010

Metaphoric Fibers:  Untamed Knitting and Crochet  exhibition juried by Adrienne Sloane and Karen Searle - Textile Center, Mineapolis, USA

 

from the tongue, exhibition curated by Joetta Maue, Lotus Gallery Space, Tribeca, NY, USA

 

TEXTiles, exhibition with Frayed Edges group, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh

 

2009

Head to Toe: From the Funky to the Sublime, St. Louis Artists' Guild, St Louis, Missouri, USA

 

Freedom, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch, England

 

Mini Textile Art "Scythia", Kherson, Ukraine

 

Drawing Rooms, The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

 

Spellbinding Textiles, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch, England

 

2008

Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh – Awarded the Edinburgh crochet and knitting guild perpetual trophy for excellence and innovation in the fields of knitting and crochet


Mad Hatters - Australia

 

Victoriana, exhibition with Frayed Edges group, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh