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Edinburgh based 
designer, artist and art worker.&#38;nbsp;
CV &#38;gt;
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    CV–Current2016 -
Founding Co-Director

Civic Soup CIC &#38;gt;2026Senior Exhibition AssociateScotland + Venice&#38;nbsp;&#38;gt;
2021 - 2026
Creative Learning Assistant 
+ Gallery Assistant

Fruitmarket &#38;gt;

–Project Work2026 [ + 2025 - 2020 ]
ESALA . BA / MA(Hons) Programme Catalogue 
Publication design, exhibition photography &#38;amp; content&#38;nbsp;curation

2021&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
ESALA Climate Action Now!Website direction &#38;amp; content curation
2020&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
The Perceptive Art of LivingArticle, Boom Saloon - Issue #0062019 - 2020 &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
MoupGraduate Residency, ESALA Projects Office
2019&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
Inhabiting InfrastructuresStudio Representative, Blueprint for The Future Exhibition, Clerkenwell
2016
Design / Build Team
Tog Studio &#38;gt;
2016
Artist Residence
Audiotalaia &#38;gt;
2015
Design/Build Team
Arkitrek &#38;gt;

–Previous


2020 - 2022
Architectural Designer
Akiko Kobayashi . Architect &#38;gt;
2020
Gallery Assistant
Royal Scottish Academy &#38;gt;2020
Exhibition Assistant
VAS / SSA &#38;gt;

2019
Exhibition Design Assistant

Studio Moffitt &#38;gt;
2018 - 2019
Society Secretary

EUSAS &#38;gt;
2018
Box Office Assistant
Edinburgh International Festival &#38;gt;2015 / 2016
Architectural AssistantHTA Design Llp. &#38;gt;2011 - 2015
Customer Service Assistant&#38;nbsp; 🛒
Sainsbury’s &#38;gt;


–Education2017 - 2019 &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;
Master of Architecture, with DistinctionESALA, ECA, University of Edinburgh2012 - 2016&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Master of Arts with Honours in Architecture, First Class 
ESALA, ECA, University of Edinburgh2006 - 2012&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;  St. Augustine’s R.C. High School, Edinburgh


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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:28:28 +0000</pubDate>

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	a bench for bute
geo thermo hapticimmersive infrastructures&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; /&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; rewilding obsolescence
thamesmead community commons&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; /&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; an-other ‘house of commons’civic anchor


	esala programme catalogue


	#001
#002
#003


	audiotalaiathe practice of urban listening

 
	thoughts &#38;amp; writings&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; /&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; enacted text as [ a saying of ] the event in the city


	moup

civic soup

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for
Open Call2022
	
	–a bench for bute
This proposal considered the bench as a point of condensed time and communion with others and environments. Through its basic repositioning and orientation of the body, the bench has a potential to generate new relationships both physically and culturally between sitter and place. 

The park-bench has commonly come to site people within specific bounded relationships to ‘nature’–particularly through the lens of leisure and within the context of ‘well-being’ culture and the ‘healing-power’ of the natural world. However, engagements with the non-human are often sites of historical persectution. Throughout periods in time and culture, to be in commune with the land was to become a channel for evil; a window to the other-wordly. 


The 17th centruy seen witch trails carried out across Scotland, including on the Isle of Bute. Between 1661-62, the Parish of Rothesay saw six woman accused and tried for witchcraft. Some of the evidence used against these woman weaponised their localised and traditional knowledge of surrounding environments for medicinal use of natural plant-based remedies. 


The design articulates a series of materials abstracting the architectural language of nearby Stuart House–in particular its formation of openings between spaces as portals. Six charred timber sections offer a quiet memorial to the trials. As an assemblage, the bench encourages a deeper engagement with specific and wider histories of ecology, mythology, time and oppression on the Isle. 


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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:33:40 +0000</pubDate>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 18:58:51 +0000</pubDate>

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for
International Competition
Shortlisted Entry
in collab. with
–&#38;gt; Dr Lisa Moffitt&#38;gt; Laura Haylock2019
	
	–geo thermo haptic
Set within the northwestern section of the Dimmuborgir lava fields in northern Iceland, the project experientially registers the curious natural phenomena of the surrounding fissure-swarm landscape. At the scale of an earthworks, the project consists of two new constructed grounds. One ground is submerged within an excavation below; the other hovers tenuously above while connecting seamlessly to the existing topography. The project is understood as an experiential choreography, alternating between immersion within and hovering over the geological and thermal conditions upon which both the immediate site and the larger Icelandic volcanic landscape rests.
 The existing basalt ground is excavated to create an occupiable depression below. The void is bound on all sides by black basalt; lined along the northern edge by gabion cages filled with the excavated rock. Remaining surfaces retain the marks of excavation. Along the south edge, staff offices, a cafe and kitchen, and WCs occupy small, wood-framed volumes set within excavated voids. These spaces are quiet, warm and still. Top-lit and suppressed, they operate in counterpoint to the dark, steaming space beyond. Exposed sheep’s wool lines and insulates their interiors whilst embedded heating radiates through a slab floor. Above, steel grating replaces former ground, hovering over the steam and void below, creating a new relationship to views of the surrounding volcanic landscape.&#38;nbsp;


Dimmuborgir’s strange geological formations are the result of intense interaction between extreme heat, water, and pressure. On the lower level, a grid of nozzles, embedded in a blanket of scree, emits a field of steam. Whilst much of the project is hidden from view within the larger landscape, this field of steam rises to mark the site from the warrens of lava fields beyond. 
 Within the lower level, views are occluded. Perception turns inward to the magnified, haptic phenomena of heat, darkness, and pressure. A series of fractures perpendicular to the east/west excavation cut to the sloping south site, framing strategic views of Lùdent Crater, Bláfjall across þrengslaborgir, and Sellandafjal.

	
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for

Streamlines, Vortices &#38;amp; Plumes–Dr Lisa MoffittDr Simone Ferracina
ESALAMArch 2018/19in collab. with–&#38;gt; Laura HaylockKaty Sidwell


	–immersive infrastructures


Immersive Infrastructures explores the process of closing loops of material and energetic systems within operational, re-purposed and obsolete infrastructures. 
Investigations were initiated by the design of a filling tank model that visualised buoyancy-induced airflow whilst recycling associated material streams into their constituent elements – water, salt and dye. 
The tank is a pivot between scales; between the controlled site of the studio and the contingent sites of Svartsengi and Bath; between the performativity of recording immersion at building scale and the performance of calibrating individual components at the infrastructural scale.

Design interventions are sited within distinct layers of the filling tank, thus displacing infrastructural conditions from the ground and exaggerating strange juxtapositions of natural and artificial systems in place at the Blue lagoon.


Further architectures, including Rewilding Obsolescence, operate within a post-carbon narrative for Bath. Space heating is radically reduced, and the historic social practice of bathing is de-centralised and re-democratised, serving as an anchor for local thermal hubs. Post-carbon Bath is projected as a landscape of strange and intricate re-appropriations of existing infrastructural and building fabrics.


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