Publications
Article: ‘Drawn to the water: the River Thames on paper’, Art UK (June 2025).
Article: ‘Contested titles: depicting the Princes and Princesses of Wales’, Art UK (September 2024).
Article: ‘Drawing lockdown: how British artists responded to the pandemic on paper‘, Art UK (May 2024).
Article: ‘Scottish independence: Scotland’s national identity in art before the Act of Union’, Art UK (April 2024).
Article: ‘Born Digital: Early Career Researchers Shaping Digital Art History’, Visual Resources, Issue 1-2: Digital Art History (2019).
Guidebook: ‘Gladstone’s Land’, National Trust for Scotland (2019).
Review: ‘Imaging Stuart Family Politics: Dynastic Crisis and Continuity – Visual Culture in Early Modernity by Catriona Murray’, Renaissance Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, (2018).
Conversation Piece: ‘#DAHRG and Rethinking Art History’, British Art Studies, Issue 6. (2017).
Review: ‘Scotland’s Lost Gardens by Marilyn Brown’, Scottish Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 2. (2016).
Article: ‘From Relegation to Elevation: The Viewer’s Relationship with Painted Ceilings from the Medieval and Renaissance Eras in North-East Scotland’. British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions. (2016).
Catalogue: ‘James Morrison: The North Wind’, Edinburgh: The Scottish Gallery (2015).
Article: ‘Recusants and the Rosary: A Seventeenth-Century Chapel in Aberdeen’, Recusant History, vol. 31, no. 2 (2015).
App: ‘Discover: Old Aberdeen’, University of Aberdeen (2015).
Speaking
Panel Chair: ‘Doodling in the Margins’, Same Same, But Different Festival, Auckland, New Zealand (February 2025).
Panellist: ‘Cultural Collapse: Art in Crisis?’, University of Auckland, New Zealand (June 2023).
Talk: ‘5 Things Art History Can Teach You About Work’, University of Auckland, New Zealand (June 2023).
Presenting: Host on Open Courtauld Hour – Season 3, Episode 3 ‘Rainbow Lenses’ (2021). Click here to watch
Presenting: Host at RES|FEST Dundee, V&A Dundee, Scotland (2019).
Conference Paper: ‘Digitally manipulated images, gender bashing and politics in the imagery of a divided nation’ as part of #LeaderImage, Association for Art History Annual Conference (2018), Kings’ College, London. Click here to watch
Talk: ‘Digital Images and the Independence Referendum’ for SNP London (2018).
Panel Chair: ‘Defining and Defying Discipline’, Art History: Undisciplined Conference, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2018)
Talk: ‘What is the Future of Digital Art History?’ as part of RES|FEST ’17, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2017). Click here to watch
Conference Paper: ‘Depicting a New Scotland: Identity and Aspiration in the Art of George Jamesone’, The Future of Early Modern Scottish Studies, University of St Andrews (2017).
Conference Paper: ‘Monumental Passings: Exploring and Analysing the Design of Seventeenth-century Scottish Tombs’, Death and Identity in Scotland, University of Edinburgh (2016).
TV: ‘Scotland: The Promised Land’, BBC 2, UK Television Programme (2015).
Conference Paper: ‘Charles II and the Paintings at Holyrood Palace’, University of Aberdeen Research Seminar Series, University of Aberdeen (2015).
Conference Paper: ‘Exploring Globalist-Nationalist Identity in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth and of the Twenty-first Centuries in Scotland’, On the Edge Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2013).
Events Produced
Lunar New Year Festival 2025, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2025)
Making Spaces, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2022)
Open Courtauld Hour, Online Series (2020-21)
Difference Festival, Arts Festival, University of Westminster, London (2020)
RES|FEST Belfast, Art History Festival, The Ulster Museum, Belfast (2019)
RES|FEST ’19, Art History Festival, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2019)
RES|FEST ’18, Art History Festival, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2018)
Art History: Undisciplined, Art History Experimental Symposium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2018)
Digital Art History: Practice and Potential, Conference, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London (2017)
Digital Art History Research Group (#DAHRG) Event and Workshop Series, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2016-2020)
Education
PhD – History of Art. University of Aberdeen (2014).
Thesis title: An Aspirational era? Examining and Defining Scottish Visual Culture, 1620-1707
MA – History of Art (Print Culture and the Early Modern Arts). Courtauld Institute of Art (2010).
MA (Hons) – History of Art. University of Aberdeen (2009).
Awards
AHRC Doctoral Studentship 2011-2014
AHRC Travel Award 2014
Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement (University of Aberdeen) 2014
John Reid Trust Scholarship (University of Aberdeen) 2009
Derek Ogston Prize (for most proficient in History of Art subjects, University of Aberdeen) 2009
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