CV
b. 1987 Falkirk, Scotland. Lives and works in London.
EDUCATION
2015-2017 Turps Studio Programme, Turps Art School, London
2009-2011 MFA Painting (with Distinction), Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
2005-2009 BA (Hons) Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 A Meanwhile Canal Boat Contemporary, London
2024 Guesswork, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2023 You’d Notice If It Wasn’t There (with Lucienne O’Mara), OHSH Projects, London
2022 A Light Weight, GalleriHi10, Skien
2018 Sidesplit, Borough Road Gallery, London
2017 Big Crunch, Darbyshire Ltd, London
2015 We've Met Before, Haven't We?, Bargain Spot Project Space, Edinburgh
2015 No Ground Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Flat Volume, APT Gallery, London (upcoming)
2025 Prose Painters, Hypha Studios, London
2025 Thieves, APT Gallery, London (upcoming)
2025 Works from the Prominent Collection of Lady Victoria Beecham, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London (upcoming)
2025 One Thing Touches Another, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming
2025 Turps Mentors Show, Paul Stolper Gallery, London
2025 A Scottish Symphony, Crane Court Gallery, London
2024 Close to the Edge, Spor Klübü, Berlin
2024 Light It Up, TondoCosmic, London
2024 Under the Laurels, Weald Contemporary (online)
2024 Undone, TondoCosmic, Making Space, London
2024 Cubitt Invites, Cubitt Studios and Gallery, London
2024 Worlds Still on a Wire, Canal Boat Contemporary, London
2024 Dancing About Architecture, Hypha Studios, London
2024 Touchpaper, Terrace Gallery, London
2024 Start With Something, The Bridewell, Liverpool
2024 Rope-a-dope, Oceans Apart, Manchester
2024 Blink: Room Share 5, Safehouse, London
2023 Close Corners, Turps Gallery, London
2023 Marsuppian, ASC Gallery, London
2023 Waiting Room, The Koppel Project, London
2023 Open Call 2023, mepaintsme (online)
2023 To The Birds, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
2023 Close Corners, HilbertRaum, Berlin
2023 Checkmate, OHSH Projects South, Peckham, London
2023 To The Birds, Landing (Electro Studios Project Space), St. Leonards-on-Sea
2022 Improv, APT Gallery, London
2022 Things I Like I Lick, Terrace Gallery, London
2022 Worlds On A Wire, Unit 3 Projects, London
2022. Caught by the Tail, Studio 4G, London
2022 Blink: Room Share 2, Safehouse 1, London
2021 A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
2021 Room Share, Safehouse1, London
2021 Your Foot in my Face and other tectonic strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London
2021 Studio Confetti, Terrace Gallery, London
2021 Circling the Square, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2020 Then & Now, Terrace Gallery, London
2020 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019, ASC Gallery, London
2020 To Paint The Gloom Itself, Terrace Gallery, London
2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
2019 Indoor Voices, Greystone Industries, Wickham Market (Curated by Graham Crowley)
2019 The Inhuman / difficult transition /, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2019 Creekside Open 2019 (Selected by Sacha Craddock), APT Gallery, London
2019 Capitulo Auditorio, Municipal Augusto Cabrita, Barreiro
2019 The Deal, Les Maisons du Peuple, Brussels
2018 C’est de la Peinture! Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
2018 Materias Primas, Galeria PADA, Barreiro, Lisbon
2018 Tetris Hang, FamilyHouse.Space, London
2018 Baring Teeth, Gallery 98, Ramsgate
2018 Turps Cloud, Turps Gallery, London
2017 Settling The Ghost, Standard Projects, Wisconsin
2017 Turps Studio Programme 2017, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
2017 Three100, No Format Gallery, London
2016 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (invited artist)
2015 Curious Artefacts, The Art Wall, Athens
2015 Salontology, Embassy, Edinburgh
2013 Warm Up, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
2012 BEEP: Through Tomorrow's Eyes, Volcano@229, Swansea
2012 Candid Berlin, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin
2011 No. 1: Paint, Blank Media Collective, Manchester
WRITING
2025 Thank You For Dinner exhibition review, Journal of Contemporary Painting Volume 11 Number 1
2025 Whispering Amongst Themselves: Bruno Goller’s Paintings, Turps Magazine Issue 30
2025 The Weirdly Distant: Minyoung Choi’s Paintings
2025 Seeps and Slips and Swarms: Hitoko Urago’s Paintings
2025 Day Into Night: Diana Cerezino’s Paintings
2025 A to E (via D, B and C), COMPOST, Issue 2
2024 An Account of Painting, Painting (noun, verb), Kingsgate Gallery
2024 There Are Only Lines in Nature: Graeme Todd’s Paintings, Turps Magazine, Issue 28
2024 Some Thing Saying Something: Mikey Thomas ‘Shapeshifters, exhibition essay
2022 Broken Suggestive: Prunella Clough’s Later Paintings, Turps Magazine, Issue 25
2021 Play It Again: Karolina Albricht’s Paintings, OFF-BEAT exhibition catalogue
2019 Travel Light: Victor Willing’s Paintings 1976-1985, Turps Spotlight II: Victor Willing
2019 Notes towards an essay on Victor Willing, Turps Magazine Issue 21
CURATION
2024 Worlds Still on a Wire, Canal Boat Contemporary, London
2023 Close Corners, Turps Gallery, London
2023 Close Corners, HilbertRaum, Berlin
2023 Ansel Krut ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’, Turps Gallery, London
2022 Worlds on a Wire, Unit 3 Projects, London
2021 Circling the Square, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2019 Victor Willing ‘Scratch the Wall’, Turps Gallery/ASC Gallery, London
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Award
2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize (Shortlisted)
2018 PADA Residency
2017 Darbyshire Prize for Emerging Art
2015 Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Award
2015 Eaton Fund Artist Grant
2015 Creative Scotland Open Project Funding Award
2013 Edinburgh City Council Visual Arts Award
2011 Andrew Grant Travel Bequest, Edinburgh College of Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 3 Painters Respond to Scott McCracken’s Guesswork, Passing Notes Issue 4
2025 One Thing Touches Another, Maya Frodeman Gallery
2024 A Study in Artistic Balance, Weald Contemporary
2023 Artw**k
2021 To The Studio with Karolina Albricht
2020 A Nameless Kind of Painting: Sean Steadman, Scott McCracken, David Auborn, Daniel Sinsel and Erin O’Keefe talk to Matt Lippiatt, Turps Magazine Issue 23
2019 Contemporary British Painting 2019 exhibition catalogue
2019 PADA Issue 1
2018 A Community of Images, ArtMaze Mag, Issue 6
2017 Floorr Magazine Issue 11
COLLECTIONS
Soho House
Private collections in the UK and the USA.