The contemporary media world around us devours information and much of it, discarded and lost onto a conveyor belt of uncataloged events and occurrences.

I make works which capture and document specific historical events as often undefined by the media, through composition and arrangement, to present an alternative angle of an editorial agenda.

Often the works contain allusions to irony, contradiction and absurdity, and carry a carefully scripted sense of cinematic departure for unfolding occurrences.

The 2009 Black Paintings are a series based on the contradictions of the cities, architecture and zeitgeists of our time.

Ultra modernism is beyond modernism, and extends past the remit of which 20th century modernism aimed to break from.

It contends and competes for space within the present day and bolts against the sophisticated and subversive power of the media, through power of it's slickness of composition, material and form.




2010 Exhibits at the 76th Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition
2009 Exhibits at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
2009 Elected to the committee of the Aberdeen Artists Society.
2009 Exhibits at the Aspect Prize, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries
2009 Journeys from Florence to Dubrovnik by Vespa
2009 Shows at the Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen
2009 Shows at the 75th Aberdeen Artists Annual Show, Aberdeen
2009 Elected to the committee of Friends of the Aberdeen Art Gallery
2009 Opens AtellierCollier Studio in Aberdeen as dedicated school of drawing
2009 Returns to Aberdeen to Wasps Studios
2007 Creative consultant for TBWA/Stream London
2007 Relocates to London
2007 Travels through Southern Italy and Sicily for 8 weeks researching material
2007 Designs T-shirts for Boston Lyric Opera House, Boston
2007 Collaborates with fashion designer Christina Defalco in Boston
2007 AtellierCollier Studio started in New York and provides creative consultancy
2006 Creative Consultant with Medoff Inc, New York
2006 Travels to Mexico and the port of Puerto Escondido then to Chihuahua
2006 Creative consultant for Medoff Inc. New York
2005 Makes new installation work at Studiovo, Rome
2005 Completes installation at the School of Architecture of Rome
2005 Journeys from London to Roma by Vespa documenting his route
2005 Shares studio in Rome with Italian performance artist Annina di Oronzo
2005 Travels between Rome and New York
2004 Attends Spanish language school in the Peruvian mountain town of Cusco
2004 Journeys through the Andes through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina in seven months
2003 In New York City and produces for Invision Communications
2002 Private commissions in Scotland
2002 Returns to New York City and works under the direction of Mark Musters
2002 Spends summer in Montreal, Canada
2001 Travel documentary through South East Asia; Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia
2001 Returns and works in New York City for the designer Carey Rothman
2000 Completes journey through Central America in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
2000 Spends summer in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2000 Works on an Independent film 'L.I.E.' in New York City, shot in Long Island
2000 Private commission for Aberdeen FC footballer
1999 Travels to New York City for the first time
1999 Completes drawings for Royal Scottish Academy Award in Florence
1999 Receives Royal Scottish Academy Travel Award
1999 Graduates in painting from Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
1998 Studies in exchange at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice
1997 Spends summer in Rome, Italy
1995 Initially studies interior design then switches to study painting under the tuition of Alexander Fraser
1994 Enrolls at Grays School of Art, Scotland
1973 Born Aberdeen




1999 John Kinross Royal Scottish Academy Travel Award




2010 The 76th Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen
2009 The 183rd Royal Scottish Academy Annual Show, Edinburgh
2009 The Aspect Prize, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery
2009 The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen
2009 The 75th Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Show, Aberdeen
2007 'Decoupage Sculptures' Andy Awards, Skylight Studio, New York
2006 'Yellow Wall IV' Installation, Pier 60, New York
2005 'Ribbon Installazione' Atelier Studiovo, Rome
2005 'CasaCorpoCasa' Installation, School of Architecture of Rome
2005 The 71st Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Show, Aberdeen
2003 The 69th Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Show, Aberdeen
2002 'Flat Pack' Applied Arts Agency, London
1999 'New Acquisitions' Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen




Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museums, Aberdeen
The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Paintings in Hospitals Trust, Edinburgh
Grampian Royal Hospitals, Grampian
Various private collections

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