Curriculum vitae

Artist statement

Jonathan Baxter is an artist, curator and peer-educator. Since 2009 Jonathan has developed an innovative approach to public engagement and peer-education through a series of socially engaged and ecological art projects, peer-education programmes, curated exhibitions, and festivals. Jonathan’s work explores a wide range of topics with an underlying commitment to social, environmental and economic justice.

What the critics say

Dundee Urban Orchard – commended for ‘its empowerment of local residents, long-term vision and encouragement of collective action’ – Creative Carbon Scotland, Library of Creative Sustainability.

Dundee Live (a week-long public art and performance festival) – ‘A poetic and liberating response to the city’ – Ben Robinson, The Skinny.

Soil (a gallery-based exhibition and performance programme) – ‘engaging and approachable … the efforts of those who strive for intelligent discourse across the so-called ‘divide’ [of humanities and science] must be lauded’ – Giles Sutherland, The Times.

Self Other (a gallery-based exhibition and events programme) – ‘Freud would have a field day’ – Metro.

New Skin (gallery-based exhibition) ‘Contemporary fine art at its best – skilful, playful and politically challenging in equal measure’ – Metro. 

Education / training

2008-9: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee University, Master of Fine Art (Distinction) – performed as a Multiple Free Association.

2008: Facilitator training, Alternatives to Violence Project, Scotland.

2005-6: Writer Development Programme, Yorkshire Art Circus, Glasshoughton, Castleford.

1998-9: Leith School of Art, Foundation Certificate, Edinburgh.

1997-8: Community Mediation Training, Community Mediation Service, Leeds.

1996-7: Strathclyde University, Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills, Glasgow.

1992-6: Edinburgh University, Religious Studies, MA (Hons) (1st Class) – specialising in Chinese Philosophy and Political and Environmental Theology.

Employment

2005-ongoing: Self-employed ‘artist and …’

Related and additional part-time work includes:

Education

2016-ongoing: Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen – Contemporary Art Practice (BA) and Art and Design (MA).

2011-2017: Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee University – Art, Society and Publics (MFA).

2010-15: Peer-Educator and Associate Artist, Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee.

2006: Tutor, Urban Theology Unit, Sheffield.

2003-5: Coordinator and Module Director, The Centre for the Study of Theology and Health, Thirsk.

2001-2: Tutor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Bristol University.

2001-2: Researcher, Department of Sociology, Bristol University. 

Community 

2009-10: Youth Worker, Community Education, Fife Council.

1999-2001: Researcher, Photographer and Group Facilitator, IRIS (Involving Residents in Solutions), Bristol. 

Voluntary

Extensive, ongoing – includes:

2023-ongoing: Committee Member, Friends of Inch Park

2017-ongoing: Artist Mentor, Various

2014-17: Coordinator, Roseangle Studios and Roseangle Cafe Arts, Dundee.

2009-14: Facilitator, Alternatives to Violence Project, Scotland.

2010-13: Committee Member, Economics, Sustainability and Peace, Quaker Peace and Social Witness.

2007-9: Community Mediator, Edinburgh Community Mediation Service.

2000-6: Committee Member, Peace, Campaigning and Networking, Quaker Peace and Social Witness.

1994-8: Group Facilitator, Counsellor, Therapist, and Tutor for various projects in Edinburgh (1994-6), Glasgow (1996-7) and Leeds (1997-8).

Art Projects and … 

Note: given the overlapping/nested nature of my practice and the multiple roles I inhabit within a project there’s an element of repetition in what follows.

Artist-led (self-initiated) projects

2013-ongoing: A+E, a conceptual framework and organisational persona braiding the terms accident and emergency, art and ecology, art and education. A+E delivers art and ecology projects to address the climate and ecological crisis through a variety of self-initiated and commissioned projects.

A+E projects include:

2019-ongoing: A+E at the Cathedral, an embedded artist residency at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. The project aims to develop and repurpose the Cathedral’s grounds and buildings in response to the climate and ecological crisis. To date the project has delivered Pilgrimage for COP26 (a 10-day walk from Dunbar to Glasgow, 2021), co-design workshops for a community garden (2022-3), the cultivation of a wildflower labyrinth and foraging meadow (2023-ongoing), a series of Plant-inspired drawing, painting and printmaking workshops led by Sarah Gittins (2022-ongoing), 3 x exhibitions: Common Thread by Karen Spy (2022), Red Line by Sarah Gittins (2023), Of Voices/Pathways by Barbara Keal (Coat of Hopes) and Natalie Taylor (Keepers of the Soil) (2023), and numerous other art-based and regenerative community workshops, film screenings and reading groups etc.

2021-ongoing: Various walking-related commissions for Art Walk Projects. (See ‘Commissioned projects’ below.)

2013-18: On Site Projects (OSP), an artist-led curatorial project exploring community, ecology and cultural activism. OSP organised and delivered various Reading Towards Action groups, film screenings (inc. Dundee’s first Take One Action Film Festival, 2015), a year-long artists’ development programme which culminated in the Dundee Commons Festival (2015), four gallery-based exhibitions (see below), and a ‘meanwhile public art project’ called Sharing Not Hoarding, co-curated with Nomas* Projects (2015-18). The latter reopened during lockdown and now continues on an ad hoc basis.

2013-17: Dundee Urban Orchard (DUO) (with Sarah Gittins), a socially engaged art and horticulture project working with over 25 community and cultural organisations to plant 25 small-scale orchards in Dundee. In addition to planting orchards DUO ran orchard maintenance and care workshops, organised public discussions on food sovereignty, delivered art workshops exploring cultural and biological diversity through the metaphor of an ‘Orchard City’, developed and toured a print exhibition designed for community centres in Dundee (also shown in several libraries and schools), supported a growing network of community gardens in the city, and created gallery-based exhibitions for GENERATORprojects, Dundee (View, 2014), Tent Gallery, Edinburgh (Urbane, 2015), Triennale di Milano (City After the City, 2016), ONCA, Brighton (Harvest, 2016), and Whitespace, Edinburgh (Arrivals, 2016).

Pre-A+E artist-led projects include:

2009-12: Dundee Artists in Residence (D-AiR), a social sculpture and peer-led curatorial programme, responsible for organising and delivering two week-long public art and performance festivals (Dundee Live, 2011 and Performing Worlds 2012), two summer exhibitions at Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee (Soil, 2012 and Performing World, 2010 – both framed as anchor exhibitions for the aforementioned festivals), an exhibition and events program at University of Dundee Botanic Garden (Art and Ecology – Where Two Worlds Meet, 2010), four artists residencies (at Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee, Tayside Recyclers, Botanic Garden, University of Dundee, and Camperdown Wildlife Centre – 2009-12), a DIY skillshare workshop (2010-12), a community garden project (2009-10), and an extensive programme of reading groups, performance platforms, art walks, and field trips etc.

2004-6: Chaplaincy Art Project (CAP), an artist residency working with patients across three acute psychiatric wards. The project was designed to refurbish three interfaith chapels and two Muslim prayer rooms within Sheffield Care Trust, NHS. CAP also developed a community-based project called Drawing Space, a fortnightly art workshop for mental health service users. My role in both projects was that of initiator, lead-artist and project coordinator. 

Commissioned projects

On behalf of Art Walk Projects, Edinburgh, and within the conceptual framework of A+E, the following projects have been delivered:

2023: Braid Walk (in collaboration with Sarah Gittins, Helen Boden and James Spence) – a participatory art walk from mouth to source along three adjoining burns: Figgate, Braid and Bonaly – inc. 4 walks, 2 workshops, a group exhibition, and a poetry reading. (Publication forthcoming.)

2023: Walking in the Footsteps of Time (a collaboration with Bridgend Farmhouse, Edinburgh Lothian Greenspace Trust and Mutual Studio) – a day-long art walk celebrating the social and ecological history of Greater Craigmillar – inc. a community parade, willow weaving, foraging, deep time and geological interpretation, and the launch of a new project celebrating the Niddrie Standing Stone.

2022: Trail – a socially engaged detournement, following an outdated Craigmillar Festival Society Art Trail booklet. Part of a practice-led research project exploring the changing nature of Greater Craigmillar and the history and legacy of the Craigmillar Festival Society.

2021: Reading Towards Walking (in collaboration with A+E at the Cathedral) – a series of six fortnightly reading groups interpreting texts about walking through walking and conversation.

2021: Line Walk Mindful Drawing – one walk per month for the duration of a year, tracking the changing seasons in Little France Park (Greater Craigmillar) – responding to the landscape through drawing, poetry and mindful silence.

Other projects

2019-20: Future Fruit (in collaboration with Sarah Gittins), The Town is the Garden, Deveron Projects – socially engaged art residency focused on rethinking a community orchard through the ‘masque’ (or mask) of Patrick Geddes. (See ‘publications’ below.)

2017: Murmur: Artists Reflect on Climate Change, An Talla Solais, Ullapool – a peer-led curatorial programme and summer exhibition – curator and contributing artist.

2015: Community Out of Bounds – A+C (a 6-month fortnightly arts and communities programme focussed on socially engaged art practice), Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council – lead-artist and peer-educator.

2014-15: If the City were a Commons (a year-long peer-education programme leading to a Dundee Commons Festival, a week-long public art and performance festival), based at Roseangle Commons, Dundee, commissioned by The Art of Living Dangerously – artist, curator and peer-educator.

2012-13: When the Future Was Now (in collaboration with Sarah Gittins), Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden – an art residency exploring food sustainability within Lumsden.

2013: Mappa Dundee … What Sustains?, GENERATORprojects, Dundee – commissioned by Curating City and Space, a project exploring sustainable creative practice in Dundee – curator.

2012-13: The Kingdom of If … Art and Sustainability in Fife, an exhibition for Fife’s Mobile Art Coach (MAC) commissioned by Fife Contemporary Art and Craft – curator and contributing artist.

2010: Red Herring, Deveron Arts, Huntly – Shadow Curator for a project by Stefanie Bourne exploring food miles in Huntly. 

Additional exhibitions, performances, talks, and workshops (heavily culled and with some repetition)

2023: Braid (group show), Art Walk Projects, Edinburgh – part of Art Walk Porty’s Vessel exhibition and events programme.

2020: Menagerie (group show), Whitespace, Edinburgh, curated by Leigh Chorlton – mixed media installation responding to the COVID-19 lockdown.

2020: Free Association: Torn halves of an integral freedom, to which however they do not add up – talk and performance for Free Association, Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow.

2017: Community Print: from here to there – a two-week print residency in collaboration with Sarah Gittins and Ullapool residents, part of Murmur: Artists Reflect on Climate Change, An Talla Solais, Ullapool – based in Ullapool Community Library with public outcomes installed in Ullapool Ferry Terminal.

2017: Print City (intervention by Dundee Urban Orchard), Print Festival Scotland and Dundee Design Festival – a three-day community print workshop grafting Orchard City prints onto a large-scale urban print installation.

2016: Community Harvest (Dundee Urban Orchard), Botanic Garden, University of Dundee – a programme of talks, environmental art workshops, storytelling, music, dance, and a mixed media exhibition showcasing work by Dundee Urban Orchard and the Orchard City network.

2016: Guest speaker with Sarah Gittins for the National Galleries of Scotland’s Inspiring Impressionism lecture series – presenting the work of Dundee Urban Orchard.

2016: Arrivals (group show), Whitespace, Edinburgh, curated by Leigh Chorlton – mixed media installation based on work undertaken by Dundee Urban Orchard.

2016: Performing Advocacy (with Tanja Ostojic), The Society of Advocates, Aberdeen, commissioned by the Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) and curated by Caroline Gausden – contributing artist/speaker and Shadow Curator.

2016: Reflections on the Incarnation, Nomas* Projects, Dundee – mixed media exhibition/installation, reading group and art walk.

2014-17: Orchard City Print Tour, a touring exhibition of screen prints made by Dundee Urban Orchard, shown in selected community centres, libraries and schools in Dundee – featured as part of Print Festival Scotland (2015 and 2016) and Ignite Festival (2016) – now on permanent loan at Arthurstone Community Library.

2014: VIEW (group show), GENERATORprojects, Dundee – mixed media installation and community performance – drawing on work undertaken by Dundee Urban Orchard.

2014: Small Gestures (Dundee Urban Orchard), Roseangle Cafe Arts, Dundee – mixed media and community performance.

2014: Decision Time (group show), Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts – commissioned artwork/installation and Bohmian dialogue/performance, curated by Zoe Irvin and Pernille Spence.

2014: Travelling Dialogues (a weekend programme responding to Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan’s work, Are you LOCATIONALIZED), Atlas Arts, Skye – performance intervention (delivered on a ferry).

2013: Who am I and what is our fate?… A Young Man’s Christian (Free) Associations, Cupar Arts Festival – site-responsive multi-media installation and sound piece for Cupar YMCA, plus print and performance interventions throughout Cupar.

2013: Print Shift (group show) – Roseangle Cafe Arts, Dundee, part of Print Festival Scotland – curator and contributing artist (showing with Sarah Gittins as Dundee Urban Orchard).

2013: Alas, Poor Performance! We Knew You Well (solo and group performance), Dundee West Community Hall, Dundee – an extended events programme for OSP – curator and co-performer.

2013: Members’ Show (group show), GENERATORprojects, Dundee – assembled sculpture.

2012-13: The Kingdom of If … Art and Sustainability in Fife (group show), Fife Contemporary Art and Craft, Mobile Art Coach (MAC) – curator and contributing artist (collaborating with Sarah Gittins, Raz Ullah and community participants).

2013: Post-mortem, GENERATORprojects, Dundee – archival exhibition and events programme exploring D-AiR’s material archive – artist and curator.

2012: Performing Worlds (group show – anchor exhibition for a public art and performance festival by the same name), Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee – interactive mixed media installation in collaboration with Sarah Gittins and community participants, showing the research and consultation process for what become Dundee Urban Orchard.

2012: Buzz Cut (group show), Glue Factory, Glasgow – video documentation of work undertaken by the D-AiR Performance Collective.

2012: Members’ Show (group show), GENERATORprojects, Dundee –assembled sculpture.

2011: Bus Stop Haiku, Christmas Light Night, Dundee, commissioned by Dundee City Council Public Art programme – interactive performance and site-responsive digital intervention into Dundee’s real time bus information system.

2011: Laying Down the Law, NeoN Festival, Dundee – site responsive performance by D-AiR Performance Collective.

2011: If there were anywhere but desert (with Sarah Gittins), Cupar Arts Festival – mixed media installation, including sound work and live performance.

2011: Soil (group show, co-curated with Claire Brennan, an anchor exhibition for Dundee Live), Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee – co-curator and contributing artist: performance installation and research platform.

2011: Dundee Live – Public Art and Performance Festival – curator. Included Mappa Mundi (group show), Dundee Central Library – contributing artist.

2011: Silent Music (group show), Digital Natives, Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee – sound performance and bike-powered cinema.

2011: Members’ Show (group show), GENERATORprojects, Dundee –assembled sculpture.

2010-11: Daily Action 5 Day Week (with Steven Loader), various real and virtual locations – a Monday to Friday weekly performance on- and off-line for the duration of a year.

2010: Knowledge Exchange (with Gayle Meikle), Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee – interactive installation and performance.

2010: Member’s Show (group show), GENERATORprojects, Dundee –off-site performance of The Living Tree.

2009: Feeders (with Peter Haining), Cupar Arts Festival –assembled sculpture – curated by Jenny Brownrigg.

2009: Something Nothing – A Living Archive (MFA final exhibition), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee – multimedia performance installation and extended events programme (with visiting artists and speakers).

2009: Vision Building for a Future Something (MFA showcase – group show), Vision Building, Dundee – performance installation and initial consultation for D-AiR.

2009: Exquisite Corpse: A Contemporary Unfolding (in response to Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen’s ‘Life is Over! If You Want It’), Cooper Gallery, Dundee – solo and group performance.

2009: Members’ Show (group show), GENERATORprojects, Dundee –assembled sculpture.

2008: Play: the silo (with Anton Beaver et al.), Cupar Arts Festival – sound performance.

2008: Poets’ Corner (with the Scottish Poetry Library and the Friends of Dalmeny Street Park), Leith Festival, Edinburgh – artist and curator: interactive community performance and poetry reading.

2007: Seven Objects – for the radical transformation of a life (with Steven Loader), various indoor and outdoor locations across the UK. Inc. a final performance and community sharing at Evergreen, Portobello, Edinburgh.

2007: Endeavour, various indoor and outdoor locations, Edinburgh – performance.

2006: Trace Elements, Trafalgar Studios, Sheffield – mixed media installation and performance.

2006: Art and Wellbeing (group show), Sylvester Works, Sheffield – paintings and prints.

2006: Self Other (with Michael MacGabhann), The Workstation, Sheffield – paintings, prints and assembled sculpture.

2005-6: Seven Islands (group show), Archipelago Gallery, Sheffield – paintings.

2005: The Door Remains Open, Trafalgar Studios, Sheffield – paintings and assembled sculpture.

2005: New Skin, Simunye Multicultural Arts Centre, Sheffield – paintings.

2004-5: Genius (group show), Cupola Gallery, Sheffield – paintings.

2004: Interventions, Eye Candy, Sheffield – paintings and prints.

2004: Black Sun, Trafalgar Studios, Sheffield – paintings and prints.

1999: Beautiful Dirt II, various outdoor locations along the Water of Leith, Edinburgh – installation and interactive performance.

1997: Circles, Mounds and Burials, Old Stables Gallery and Grounds, Mickley, N. Yorkshire – land art and works on paper.

1996: Icicle Park Dances, various outdoor locations, Glasgow – land art and interactive performance.

1995: Beautiful Dirt I, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA – land art and interactive performance.

Community Art Projects

2010-11: Spacemakers, Community Education, N.E. Fife – lead artist.

2008-9: Mental Landscapes, Dept. of Spiritual Care, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh – lead artist.

2008: Picturing Pain, Chronic Pain Clinic, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee – artist consultant.

2007: Peace Mandala (with Sarah Gittins), Festival of Spirituality and Peace, Edinburgh – lead artist and workshop facilitator.

2007-8: Poetry and Protest (with Sarah Gittins), working with various peace and justice organisations across the UK – lead artist and workshop facilitator.

2006-7: Drawing Space, Burngreave, Sheffield – lead artist and workshop facilitator.

Artist in Residence

2019-ongoing: See ‘Artist-led (self-initiated) projects’ above. Inc. A+E at the Cathedral and Art Walk Projects.

Also includes:

2019-20: Future Fruit (with Sarah Gittins), a socially engaged art and horticulture project working in collaboration with The Town is the Garden, Deveron Projects, Huntly.

2012-13: When the Future Was Now (with Sarah Gittins), a research residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden – exploring food sustainability in Lumsden.

2011: Beautiful Dirt III, Tayside Foundation for the Conservation of Resources, Dundee – undertaken as part of D-AiR’s ongoing programme.

2010: Serious Games, Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee – undertaken as part of D-AiR’s ongoing programme.

2009: Usable Sculpture (group residency), University College of York St John, led by Sarah Staton in collaboration with Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

2005-8: Peace Zone, Greenbelt Arts Festival, Cheltenham – lead artist.

1997: Circles, mounds and burials, Old Stables Gallery, Mickley – also included the development of an arts programme run from Old Stables Gallery (ongoing).

Curatorial

For the names of additional artists involved in the following exhibitions and festivals please see details and links on this website.

2022-23: A+E at the Cathedral – exhibitions and event programmes inc.: Common Thread by Karen Spy (2022), Red Line by Sarah Gittins (2023), Of Voices/Pathways by Barbara Keal (Coat of Hopes) and Natalie Taylor (Keepers of the Soil) (2023).

2019: XR at Summerhall – group show and events programme for Extinction Rebellion, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe – co-curator of the exhibition and curator/programmer for a month-long performance programme entitled Act(ing) Now.

2017: Murmur: Artists Reflect on Climate Change – peer-led curatorial programme and summer exhibition, An Talla Solais – curator, peer-educator and contributing artist.

2016: Emily Johns: The Politics of Print – solo exhibition, Roseangle Cafe Arts, Dundee, part of Print Festival Scotland, 2016 – co-curated with Sarah Gittins.

2015-18: Sharing Not Hoarding – a meanwhile public art project utilising hoardings in Dundee’s Waterfront Development – co-curated with Nomas*Projects. (Relaunched during lockdown and now running ad hoc and subject to funding.)

2015: Dundee Commons Festival – a week-long festival of gallery-based and public art exhibitions, co-design workshops, daily talks, walks, music, poetry, and performance, working in the city with a base camp at Dundee West Community Hall (aka Dundee Commons) – artist, curator and peer-educator.

2014-5: If the City were a Commons (a year-long peer-led artist development programme culminating in the Dundee Commons Festival), Roseangle Cafe Arts, Dundee –curator and peer-educator.

2014: Mappa Dundee (group show) GENERATORprojects, Dundee, part of a wider research project entitled, ‘Curating City and Space’ – curator.

2013: Fate (Roseangle Studios group show, themed exhibition), Cupar Arts Festival, multiple venues – curator and contributing artist.

2013: Print Shift (group show), Roseangle Cafe Arts, Dundee, part of Print Festival Scotland – curator and contributing artist.

2012-13: The Kingdom of If … Art and Sustainability in Fife (group show), commissioned by Fife Contemporary Art and Craft for the Fife Mobile Art Coach (MAC) – curator and contributing artist.

2012: Performing Worlds (group show and anchor exhibition for a larger festival programme – see below), Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee – curator and contributing artist.

2012: Performing Worlds – Public Art, Performance and Education Event – various indoor and outdoor locations across Dundee – curator and contributing artist.

2011: Soil (group show and anchor exhibition for a larger festival programme – see below), Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee – contributing artist and co-curator with Clare Brennan.

2011: Dundee Live – Public Art and Performance Festival – using various indoor and outdoor locations across Dundee – curator and contributing artist.

2010-11: Red Herring – socially engaged art project, Deveron Arts, Huntly – shadow curator.

2011-2012: Guerrilla Gallery (with Garry Whitton, Graeme Hawkins et al.) – a pop-up arts, dance, music, tag tool, and bike generator/cinema event with four iterations in Dundee: 1. Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay, 2. Marketgait Carpark and 3. and 4. Tayside Recyclers – instigator and curator.

2010: Art and Ecology … Where Two Worlds Meet (group show), University of Dundee Botanic Garden – curator and contributing artist.

2004-5: Various pop-up exhibitions and performances – the Centre for the Study of Theology and Health, Thorpe House Gallery, Thirsk – initiator and curator.

1999: Beuys in Scotland – The Labirynt – From Malta Through Eastern Europe to the Celtic World – The Demarco European Arts Foundation, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh – assistant archivist and co-curator. 

Publications

‘Line Walk Mindful Drawing: A year in the life of Little France Park’, Pub. Art Walk Projects, 2022.

‘Future Fruit: Rethinking Huntly from a Geddesian Perspective’ (with drawings by Sarah Gittins) in Town is the Garden Chapbooks: Orchard, Pub. Deveron Projects and Intellect, 2021.

‘A dead man on the spot’ in ‘Functional, Aesthetic or Otherwise?’, GENERATOR Publications, Issue 4, 2014.

‘ARTocracy – a critical review’, PUBLIC issue 45: Art and Civic Spectacle, Spring 2012.

‘Contested Values and the Practice of Art’, Art and Activism, 2011.

‘Art and Oil’, Debate, a-n Magazine, September 2010.

‘Moving Images from the Attic Archive’, Review, MAP Magazine, Summer 2010.

‘Why Are Artists Poor?’, Debate, a-n Magazine, April 2010.

‘Starting Point’, Review, a-n Magazine (online), February 2008.

‘A Necessary Angel’ in Baxter, J., (ed.), Wounds that Heal: Theology, Imagination and Health. London: SPCK, 2007.

‘Mental Health Chaplaincy and the Arts: Groupwork in a Hospital and Community Setting’ in The Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, Vol. 8 No. 1, Spring/Summer 2007.

‘Face of the Deep: A Theology in Becoming by Catherine Keller’, Review, Reviews in Religion and Theology 10, September 2003.

Awards / funding

2022: Scottish Communities and Climate Action Network

2016: Dundee Festival Trust

2015: Dundee Festival Trust

2013-16: Creative Scotland: Public Engagement Award

2012: Creative Scotland: Fife Visual Arts Award

2011: Creative Scotland: Dundee Visual Arts Award

2010: Creative Scotland: Dundee Visual Arts Award

2010-2015: Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee: Endowment

2008-09: Student Award Agency Scotland

1996: Edinburgh University, Victoria Gunning Award (for outstanding academic achievement)

1995: Dartmouth Scholarship (USA)

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