Woodcut on paper series, 2024-2025.     

Cramond Island is an uninhabited tidal island, north of Edinburgh in the Firth of Forth. The island has been manipulated throughout history, and exists as a relic of invasion and defence. It is a land in dispute with its neighbours, be it the North Sea to its Romans settlers and the military fortification in the world wars.

The series dramatises the crumbling, yet stoic Second World War coastal defences guarding Cramond Island’s causeway as monoliths, resonant of derelict fortifications and memorials.  

Introducting rhythm to punctuate a mesmeric sequence, the elegy of sublty varying monoliths are designed to stop one, to entrance, much like their second world war counterparts - the monoliths provoke one to pause, whilst the series redefines Cramond Island as a landscape rooted in its vulnerability, for it is a fragile space of invasion and defence, deserving our sincere attention. 

Exhibited at The Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, 2025.