I was born in Hamilton, Scotland, in 1966, and grew up between Inverkeithing, Culross, and Bo’ness — places that quietly shape you through landscape, history, and a sense of belonging. After leaving school, I trained as a picture framer in Edinburgh. It was there that I first felt close to the living world of art, and where I had the good fortune to meet Richard Demarco and Joseph Beuys, both of whom had a lasting influence on the way I think about creativity, culture, and independence. Along the way, I had short working stints with Gleneagles Hotel and Alfred Dunhill, experiences that exposed me to different disciplines of craft, presentation, and professionalism. Eventually, my path took me out of Scotland and into Germany, where I studied German at Bochum University and began to widen my sense of what an artistic life could look like beyond borders. In the mid-1990s, by pure chance, I met Christo and Jean-Claude in a pub. That meeting changed everything. I went on to work with them as a monitor and team leader on the wrapping of the German Reichstag, completed in 1995. Watching that project unfold — temporary, monumental, and deeply political — gave me the confidence to commit fully to my own practice as an artist. That decision has shaped the last three decades of my life.Since then, my work has taken me around the world, with exhibitions and projects in Singapore, Tokyo, New York, London, and beyond. Photography, painting, sculpture, and experimental processes have all become part of the same ongoing conversation in my work — a way of responding to place, history, and movement.Now, that journey brings me back to America. In 2026, I hope to return to Mount Vernon and to exhibit in Boston, continuing a transatlantic story that connects Scotland’s past with its present. This project is not a departure from what I have done before, but a continuation — a way of gathering a lifetime of work, travel, and experience into a single, moving narrative.