2019
Helen Lamb Prize for Best Creative Writing Dissertation, University of Stirling
2017
Invited artist, Hidden Door Festival
2016
Best Factual, BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award
Best UK Short, East End Film Festival
Director's Choice Award, Black Maria Film Festival
2015
Nominee, Magnum/Photo London Graduate Photographers Award
2014
Short film commission, Scottish Documentary Institute
Artist Bursary, Creative Scotland
2013
Third Place, Jill Todd Photographic Award
Adam Bruce Thomson Award, RSA New Contemporaries
Selected artist, The Catlin Guide
Artist residency, Unit 7 Artist Studios
Artist residency, studio 41
2012
Shortlisted, Barns-Graham Travel Award, Royal Scottish Academy
Selected graduate artist, Source Photographic Review
2011
Honourable Mention, Photography Book Now
Docudays UA, April 2020
Black Maria Virtual Film Festival, 2020
VIS Vienna Shorts Festival, May 2019
Short Screens, Belgium, April 2019
Blowup Film Fest: Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, November 2017
Scenecs International Film Festival, May 2017
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, March 2017
Annual CPH Film Festival, February 2017
DOCfeed, February 2017
British Shorts Berlin, January 2017
Vimeo Staff Picks, January 2017
Family Film Project, November 2016
Edinburgh Short Film Festival, November 2016
Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, October 2016
Renfrewshire Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, October 2016
Reykjavík International Film Festival, October 2016
Montecatini Short Film Festival, October 2016
LUNAFEST Film Festival, September 2016
Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, September 2016
Shorts México, September 2016
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, August 2016
East End Film Festival, June 2016
Open City Documentary Festival, June 2016
XPO North, June 2016
DocuTIFF, June 2016
Shortcutz Amsterdam, May 2016
DocuWest International Film Festival, May 2016
Wales International Documentary Festival, May 2016
"Filming the Personal", Close Up Cinema, April 2016
Glasgow Short Film Festival, March 2016
Black Maria Film Festival, February-June 2016
London Short Film Festival, January 2016
Two Short Nights Film Festival, November 2015
Inverness Film Festival, November 2015
Ickle Film Fest, September 2015
Edinburgh International Film Festival, June 2015
The Night Is All Ours
Music video, 2016
Music: Rick Redbeard
Label: Chemikal Underground
4 mins
The Third Dad
Documentary, 2015
10 mins
(When You Are Not Here) Everything Has a Flatness
Moving image, 2014-2016
3 mins
Mono No Aware
Experimental, 2014
4 mins
Letter to the Sea
Film poem, 2013
1 min
I Put a Spell on You
Moving image, 2012
4 mins
Flicker
Moving image, 2012
04:00 mins
The Outtakes
Music video, 2016.
7 mins
Three moving image works used in video
Director: Owen D. Davey
Music: Kathryn Joseph
Label: Hits the Fan Records
Ghost Light
Hidden Door Festival, Leith Theatre, Edinburgh
26 May - 4 June 2017
MAX A5
TYS, Copenhagen
22 November 2014
Home Is Where the Heart Is But What If It's Broken?
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
Merchant Square, Glasgow
10 - 11 April 2014
Jill Todd Photographic Award Exhibition
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
14 February - 8 March 2014
Jill Todd Photographic Award Exhibition
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
23 November 2013 - 3 February 2014
MAX A5
KONTOR Galleri, Copenhagen
24 November 2013
Nature Reserves
Curated by Tom Jeffreys, Editor of The Journal of Wild Culture
GV Art, London
26 July-13 September 2013
RSA New Contemporaries 2013
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
13 April–8 May 2013
Seven Phases of Sadness
Unit 7 Artist Studios, Glasgow
14 April 2013
Suspended Animations
studio 41, Glasgow
7-23 February 2013
7th Street Level Open
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
15 December 2012-3 February 2013
MAX A5
KONTOR Galleri, Copenhagen
24 November 2012
53° North
The New Schoolhouse Gallery, York
8 September-27 October 2012
Matters of Translation
Boetzelaer|Nispen, London
17 August-12 September 2012
Black: New Graduates from Glasgow School of Art
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Glasgow
24 July-4 August, 2012
GSA in Dunoon
Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon
20 July-4 August 2012
A Spell of Heavy Rain
Glasgow School of Art
7-16 June 2012
The Invigilators
Glasgow School of Art
21-28 January 2012
Rerun
The Vic Gallery, Glasgow
25-27 May 2011
Joint exhibition with jewellery artist Stefanie Cheong
iPhoneography: May 2010 - The Unfolding
The Oakbook Gallery, Oakland
15 May-13 June 2010
Gray's School of Art, 18 November February 2016
"Port Cendres", part of the programme In a place like that, Reid Gallery, Glasgow. 17 September 2014
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow. 24 November 2013
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow. 2 February 2013
Indie Photobook Library, Washington
Constable & Robinson, London
Artist Book Collection, Glasgow School of Art
PhD
Fine Art & Creative Writing
Glasgow School of Art & University of Glasgow
2025
MLitt (Distinction)
Creative Writing
University of Stirling
2019
COSCA (Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland) Certificate in Counselling Skills
University of Glasgow
2019
AFHEA (Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
PG Cert Learning & Teaching (Creative Practices)
Glasgow School of Art
2016
BA (Hons) First Class with Distinction
Fine Art Photography
Glasgow School of Art
2012
Exchange semester
Art & Art History
University of New Mexico
2010
Foundation Diploma in Photography
CPH Film and Photo School
2009
BA English
University of Southern Denmark
2002