I'm a Scottish artist using my practice to show the disconnect between physically occupying one space and mentally occupying another. My practice looks at scripted and liminal space, with scripted spaces being places which are specifically designed to influence how people move through/experience them. This includes the digital world, with social media and video games, as well as architecture and art. This helps me play with the observational nature of painting, often looking at how our view of the world is impacted by our relationship to technology and the body. By framing paintings with objects, walkable hallways and landscapes, that ultimately end with the plane of the painting, I'm able to bring the viewer inside the piece, before reflecting them back to the real world.  This helps me transform day-to-day places into idealised versions of themselves which reflect feelings of derealisation through the contrast between the natural and artificial world. 

Acrylic allows me to mirror this materially, with my use of the CMYW colour relationship allowing me to create whitecast colours in contrast with pure pigment, mimicking artificial and natural light. Taking inspiration from phone photography, I often paint how light is captured digitally, with the diffraction of light becoming more apparent, and reflections becoming artefacts within the image. 

Recently my work has looked at the mystification of girlhood and the Scottish landscape, exploring how these have become visual commodities both in story telling and social media. Where they are used to create spaces which are aspirational beyond the realms of reality.

I’m currently based at OuterSpaces Dundee, with work available at Hypha Curates