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Art Writing Portfolio

Projects & Awards

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Photo Credit: The Scottish Book Trust

Shortlisted, New Writers Award, Scottish Book Trust (2025)

Photo credit: Gabrielle Tse

Poetry Winner, Bai Meigui Creative Writing Competition (2025)

Photo credit: Sally Jubb

Emerging Writer 2024, Edinburgh Art Festival

Photo credit: Gabrielle Tse

Clydebuilt Mentee, Edwin Morgan Trust and St Mungo's Mirrorball (2024)

Photo credit: Alice Audley

Young Critic 2023, The T.S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society

Selected writing samples

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Reviewing Hitomi Hosono for ArtAsiaPacific (2025)

''Hitomi Hosono’s intricate ceramics, exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, reflected the vigor and simplicity of the natural world...''

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Reviewing Abigail Parry for The Poetry Society (2023)

''Perhaps you're playing truant with your childhood best friend, peeking out of your hiding spot from a keyhole. It also sounds  hesitant: the two of you are alone now at last... or are you?...''

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Reviewing The Edinburgh Art Festival for The Skinny (2024)

''Fungi perturbs me. Mould requires no explanation, mushrooms have the queasy quality of somehow looking ripe and withered at the same time, and the word "lichen" makes me itch between my fingers...''

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Reviewing “Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys” for ArtAsiaPacific (2021)

''Glowing screens, projections, and monitors illuminated the dim exhibition space, evoking flickering portals that lured visitors closer to their thresholds. Throughout the exhibition, archives are alluded to as entryways into realms of knowledge...''

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