Photo By Christie Hemm Klok

My practice moves across writing, photography and land-based work, connected by a sustained attention to material process — how bodies, landscapes and structures are shaped by external forces, labour and time. I am one of very few female drystone wallers in Scotland and globally, and that work has been influencial to my practice.

My memoir Drystone – A Life Rebuilt (Birlinn Polygon, 2025) explores what has shaped my life. I have been featured in The Smithsonian Magazine, The Times Magazine, The Scotsman, and on BBC Radio 4.

In 2025 I was lead artist for The Memory Stones, a permanent public memorial in Kinross commissioned through the Remembering Together programme, consisting of seven carved stones bearing translations of an original monostich into the main minority languages of the area. I was shortlisted for the Anne Brown Essay Prize in 2025 for an essay examining racial identity and belonging through land and drystone walling.

My visual work is rooted in the same environments I move through and labour in — landscape, stone, the slow accumulation of material change. I am currently developing a photographic practice that extends from image making toward object based and installation work.

I live with my family in Perthshire, Scotland.