My multidisciplinary artistic career includes opera, large scale public realm work, site responsive theatre, socially engaged art for health, durational performance art, and immersive concerts, film screenings and exhibitions.

As a librettist for Dai Fujikura, I’ve co-translated Solaris (Theatre de Champs Elysées, 2015) and wrote A Dream of Armageddon (New National Theatre Tokyo, 2020), my next opera, The Great Wave, on the life of Ukio-e Artist Katsushika Hokusai, premières at Scottish Opera in 2026. 

I was founding producer of Secret Cinema (2008-13), co-director of Kensington’s flagship site-specific commissioning festival InTRANSIT (2013-17) producer of London Contemporary Orchestra’s site-specific projects (2013-17), Special Projects Producer for The National Archives and National Trust (2015 – 2018), and Creative Director British Army’s Art and Engagement events in Scotland (2021–24), winning the Army a Fringe First and the Scottish Arts Club prize for best Scottish Theatre Production. 

As a performance artist I have presented performance work at the Berlin Month of Performance Art, Design Museum, Saatchi Gallery, Estorick Collection, SSA123 at the Royal Scottish Academy.

I studied Voice and Composition at Trinity College of Music, Music Education at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and took a Masters in Artistic Research at Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Public Health from The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. I recently convened the Arts and Society research day for Scotland's first International conference on Armed Forces and Society, at  Edinburgh Napier University Business School's Centre for Military Research, Education, and Public Engagement.

I am a visiting lecturer in Fine Art at Moray School of Art, University of the Highlands and Islands, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Society of Scottish Antiquities, and the Royal Society for Public Health.

I am a trustee of Moray Art Centre and a member of The City of Edinburgh's Independent Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Implementation Group