Education
2002-2004
Masters, Goldsmithing Silversmithing Metalwork and Jewellery. Royal College of Art
1996-2000
BA Hons. Design and Applied Arts – Jewellery and Silversmithing. Edinburgh College of Art
Commissions / Collections
V & A Museum Jewellery Collection
Crafts Council Collection, London
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
The Alice and Louis Koch Collection
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’, London
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Optical Brooch Feather Brooch
De Beers, Royal Ascot (commission - diamond brooch presented by the Queen to race winner)
Galerie Marzee Collection - Nijmegen,The Netherlands
The Royal College of Art Collection - London
The Royal Mint, Medal collection, UK
Decorative Art Collection of the City of Edinburgh
Wedgwood - Staffordshire, England
Professional Practice
Current - from 2009
Glasgow School of Art, Part time Lecturer, Silversmithing and Jewellery
2015
International Emerging Artists Exhibition & Symposium - Guest Speaker, Shanghai Art and Design Academy, China
Craft in Conversation Symposium, lecture / panel discussion, St Andrews
Meet your Maker - Fife Contemporary Art & Craft at St Andrews Museum - with Dorothy Hogg MBE
2014
The Academy of Arts and Design - Tsinghua University, Beijing, Visiting Lecturer
Gold Symposium - Lecture, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
2012
Society for Jewellery Historians, guest speaker, London
2011
Hiko Mizuno School of Jewellery, Tokyo, guest speaker
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, guest speaker
2009
Goldsmiths' Hall, Creation II Day of Knowledge - two lectures for Coutts London Jewellery Week
University of Hertfordshire, Visiting Lecturer
2008
Victoria and Albert Museum, Workshop with Dorothy Hogg in conjunction with the opening of the Sackler Centre
2007-2009
Royal College of Art, Part Time Jewellery Technical Instructor
2007
Royal University for Women, Bahrain, Guest Speaker
2006
Wire Weekend, Short Course, Clerkenwell Green, London
2005
Association for Contemporary Jewellery, member of judging panel, ACJ Prize at New Designers
Applied Arts Scotland, Edinburgh, Guest Speaker
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Guest Speaker
Richmond Adult community College, Visiting Lecturer
2001 - 2002
Artist in Residence and teaching assistant, Edinburgh College of Art
2001
Surrey Institute if Art and Design, Guest Speaker
Other Experience / Training / Residencies
2014
Cove Park, Scottish Craft Residency, Argyll and Bute, Scotland - 6 weeks
2010
Masterclass in alloying with Giovanni Corvaja, Todi, Italy - 5 days
2005
Workshop by Lucy Sarneel, Atelier Ravary, Belgium - 5 days
2002
Masterclass in Granulation with Giovanni Corvaja, Birmingham, England - 5 days
2001
Edinburgh College of Art, Artist in Residence, Silversmithing and Jewellery Deptartment - 1 year
2000
Bishopsland Workshops, Post-graduate Training course / residency - 1 year
Organisations
Honorary Member of The World Crafts Council Europe