2012-2013 Mergers and Monopolies In August 2011, Edinburgh College of Art was merged with the University of Edinburgh. What this meant for me was that the short courses department I coordinated at ECA was closed and its course programme were brought under management...
2009-2011 Fred My father Fred died in May 2009. Fred Bushe OBE, RSA was at the forefront of modernist sculpture and set up the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire in the late 1970s. Fred’s ambition was to create a space where anyone, whether professional, a...
2007-2008 Edinburgh In February 2007, I returned to live in Edinburgh and work at Edinburgh College of Art. It was an opportunity for me to return to Edinburgh domestic drama after over 15 years away. I lived in a wonderful Georgian converted townhouse flat in...
2005-2006 Oxford I started lecturing part time at Oxford Brookes University in 2005 and also rented a studio space at Magdalen Road Studios and proceeded to paint every evening, weekend and day off. In early 2006 I worked on a new series of painting for the Sarah...
2002-2008 Cyprus In 2002, to escape academia I choose to spend a month as a student at the Cyprus College of Art in Lemba, near Pafos. The School was set up for international art students to come and make art free from administration and curriculum. It now runs summer...
