About

Before taking up the role of Deputy Director of The Glasgow School of Art, I was Dean of Academic Programmes at Central Saint Martins. I was previously Associate Head of School at Belfast School of Art, and have a history of designing and leading courses across all levels of Higher Education, from Foundation Art and Design [year zero], to BA Ceramics, Jewellery and Silversmithing, and MFA Design.

I graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA Ceramics and Glass, and began my career in higher education almost immediately. As a maker, my focus is both personal and political, with works including a commission for the Northern Ireland Assembly launched on International Women’s Day, exploring the lack of female representation as Members of the Assembly. ‘At The Table [2016]’, a thirty piece ceramic dinner service visually exploring the data surrounding the lack of women in the role of MLA in the Assembly.

I am also interested in ideas of memory, the role of women, the narrative of objects and the space between art and craft and in an article, ‘Drawing Through Clay’ for Ceramics Now, I discussed the potential of making as drawing. I have exhibited throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally.

From 2015- 2019, I was involved in the co-funded Creative Europe project ‘Ceramics and It’s Dimensions’, a project spanning eleven countries with twenty-five partners which bring museums, universities, and research institutes together to provide an integral view of ceramics past, present and future. I was also a judge of the international ‘Future Lights’ ceramics competition.

More recently I created and delivered three courses as part of the UNESCO X Women@Dior Women Leadership & Sustainability Programme.