A Hugo Burge Foundation Trustee

I am honoured and excited to have been appointed a Trustee of the Hugo Burge Foundation, along with Dominic Goold. Hugo Burge The late entrepreneur, collector and philanthropist Hugo Burge (1972–2023) dedicated the last decade of…

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A Scottish Colourists Talk

I am looking forward to giving the Scottish Colourists talk ‘A Century of the Scottish Colourists‘ to accompany the Fleming Collection exhibition The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh on 22 April…

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A New Year of Art History

Celebrate 2025 as a new year of art history by reading texts I have written about Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Mabel Pryde Nicholson, the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson and William Gillies. Read on to find out…

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Glaciers

I have contributed an essay to the major forthcoming book, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Glaciers, which will be published by Lund Humphries on 7 October 2024. Grindelwald Glacier Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) is arguably best known for…

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Mabel Pryde Nicholson: An Artist of Edinburgh

I shall be giving the talk ‘Mabel Pryde Nicholson: An Artist of Edinburgh’ for Rottingdean Heritage on 10 August 2024. It will accompany the exhibition Prydie: The Life and Art of Mabel Pryde Nicholson at…

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