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EDUCATION:
M.F.A. 2D / Painting 2001-2004 Southern Illinois University (SIU), Carbondale, IL, USA
B.A. (Hons) Painting 1996-2000 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
HND Graphic Design 1994-1996 Aberdeen College, Aberdeen
AWARDS AND PRIZES:
2011 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
2010 Two-week artist residency awarded by The Creative Retreat, Gardenstown
2009 HI-Arts Visual Artists' Award, Creative and Professional Development Grant
2008 The Hope Scott Trust Grant, Creative and Professional Development Grant
2007 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
• HI-Arts Visual Artists' Award, Creative and Professional Development Grant
2001-2004 Full Tuition Waiver, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
2000 Pillans and Wilson Award, major painting prize in the Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Pushing Out the Boat Issue 11, artwork selected for the North-East Scotland's Magazine of New Writing
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Monaghan County Council, Ireland
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
Pillans and Wilson
Private collections in the UK, Ireland, and USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2011 Place, John Lewis Espresso Bar, Aberdeen
2009 North East Open Studios, Elgin
• Past to Present, Footprints Gallery, Hopeman
2008 Home, Touched By Scotland, Ryehill, Oyne
2007 Salt in My Blood, The Market House Gallery, Monaghan, Ireland, Nov-Jan 2008
2004 Where? (MFA Thesis Exhibition), Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Olivia Irvine and Fiona Jappy, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Latitude/Longitude, Fiona Jappy and Baggs McKelvey, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
* denotes invitational exhibition
** denotes juried exhibition
2012
• */**Artaboyne Exhibition, Victory Hall, Aboyne
• *Spring Exhibition, Beauly Gallery, Beauly
2011
• 60x60@60, Moray Art Centre, Findhorn, Dec-Feb 4th 2012
• The Winter Exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
• *Christmas Exhibition, Beauly Gallery, Beauly
• Art Over Easy 7, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• *Contemporary Art Exhibition, Part of Nairn Book & Arts Festival, The Court House, Nairn
• *Now We Are Two, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
• *Making Waves, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
• *Spring Mixed Exhibition, Just Art, Fochabers
• *Small and Perfectly Crafted, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2010
• *Christmas Exhibition, Just Art, Fochabers
• The Aspect Prize, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, Paisley
• *Summer Cocktail, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
• *4square Exhibition, Part of Nairn Book & Arts Festival, Community Centre, Nairn
• *Recent Work, The Gallery, Cullen
• Postcard from Home, Unit D Studios, Waterfoot
• *COAST Festival of the Visual Arts, Exhibiting with Banffshire Artists' Collective, Banff
• Moray Arts Club Members' Exhibition 1, Elgin Library Gallery, Elgin
• The Postcard Show, Eat @ The Claremont, Hastings
• **The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2009
• *Christmas Exhibition, Just Art, Fochabers
• *Christmas Exhibition and Art in a Box, Inchmore Gallery, Inchmore
• Art Over Easy 5, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• *Summer Mixed Exhibition, Just Art, Fochabers
• **Moray Arts Club Open Exhibition, Elgin Library Gallery, Elgin
• **Nairn Open Art Exhibition, The Court House, Nairn
• **The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, The Vision Building, Seabraes, Dundee
• **COAST Festival Fine & Applied Art Fair, Macduff Town Hall, Macduff
• **Aberdeen Artists' Society 75th Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
• Moray Arts Club Members' Exhibition 1, Elgin Library Gallery, Elgin
• The Postcard Show, Eat @ The Claremont, Hastings
• *Spring Mixed Exhibition, Just Art, Fochabers
2008
• Christmas Show, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
• *Christmas Exhibition and Art in a Box, Inchmore Gallery, Inchmore
• *Recent Works, Level 9 Gallery, Cave Creek, AZ, USA
• Moray Arts Club Members' Exhibition 2, Moray Art Centre, Findhorn
• The Aspect Prize Exhibition, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, Paisley
• **Moray Arts Club Open Exhibition, Elgin Library Gallery, Elgin
• **Aberdeen Artists' Society 74th Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
• **The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
• Moray Arts Club Members' Exhibition 1, Elgin Library Gallery, Elgin
• The Postcard Show, Eat @ The Claremont, Hastings
• *Group Exhibition, Inchmore Gallery, Inchmore
2007
• Christmas Exhibition, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
• 9x12 Works on Paper Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
• The Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
• The Aspect Prize Exhibition, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, Paisley
• **Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Bury
• **Aberdeen Artists' Society 73rd Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
• **The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
• The Postcard Show, Eat @ The Claremont, Hastings
2006
• **Sofa So Good, Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen
• The Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
• The Aspect Prize Exhibition, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, Paisley
• **Aberdeen Artists' Society 72nd Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
• Moray Arts Club Members' Exhibition, Elgin Library Gallery, Elgin
2005
• **Aberdeen Artists' Society 71st Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
• Moray Arts Club Members' Exhibition, Elgin Library Gallery, Elgin
• **The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2004
• The Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
• *Ménage a Cinq, Mad Art Gallery, St Louis, MO, USA
• **Mapping Memory, Art Saint Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
• *The View So Far, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
2003
• MFA Preview Exhibit, Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale, IL, USA
• Mini-print 9 Exhibition, Vergette Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• Cosmopolitan, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• From the Margin, Des Lee Gallery, St Louis, MO, USA
• *Process and Performance Art, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
2002
• *Scenes and Locations, Cedarhurst Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, IL, USA
• Mini-print 8 Exhibition, Vergette Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• Faculty & Graduate Exhibition, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• The Philadelphia Exchange, Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale, IL, USA
• Works, Gallery HQ, Carbondale, IL, USA
• Pulp Works on Paper, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA, and University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
2001
• Mini-print 7 Exhibition, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada, and Vergette Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• Printmaking Show, Vergette Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
• AD501 Painting Exhibition, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA
2000
• *Graduates 2000, The Strathearn Gallery, Crieff
• **The Society of Scottish Artists 106th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
• BA Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
• Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1999
• **The Society of Scottish Artists 105th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
• *Small Works, Southside Exhibition, Edinburgh
WORKSHOPS:
2012 Composition, Tone & Colour, Portgordon Art Group, Portgordon
2010 Picture This Graphic Communication Workshop, Moray Art Centre, Findhorn
• Drawing, Portgordon Art Group, Portgordon
2009 Drawing, Portgordon Art Group, Portgordon
• Picture This Graphic Communication Workshops, Moray Art Centre, Findhorn
• Art Workshops at Anderson's Primary School, Forres, provided on behalf of Sightsavers International Junior Painter of the Year Awards Annual Competition
2008 Drawing, The B.A.L.L. Project, Hopeman
• Drawing, The B.A.L.L. Project, Keith
2007 Drawing, The B.A.L.L. Project, Hopeman
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS:
2008 'Farming' Hungry for Success Installation, Logie Primary School, Dunphail, Forres
2006 Buckie's Fishing Heritage Tiled Artwork Commission, Cluny Square, Buckie
2005 River Spey Mural, Craigellachie Primary School, Craigellachie
• 'The Sea' Hungry for Success Installation, Hopeman Primary School, Hopeman
• 'The Four Seasons' Hungry for Success Installation, Milne's Primary School, Fochabers
PROFESSIONAL / TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2010
Elected professional member of The Society of Scottish Artists
2004 - 2005
Artist for New Elgin Primary School Arts Project
Summer 2003 / 2004
Judge of drawings and short stories by psychology students at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
2001 - 2004
Teacher of various drawing classes (as Instructor of Record) and art history discussion groups (as Graduate Assistant), employed by the School of Art and Design, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
Member of GAPP: Graduate Association of Painters and Printmakers at SIUC
2003 - 2004
Treasurer for GAPP: Graduate Association of Painters and Printmakers at SIUC
Summer 2003
Graduate Assistant, developed and wrote an Orientation Guidebook for Graduate Teaching Assistants
