My research examines Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio environment and practice, considering the role that collaboration, participation and process play in the conceptual development of prints. Using methods of participation in and observation of the studio’s projects, and analysing its archives, I ask whether a socio-semiotic approach may illuminate the implicit values of collaboratively produced prints.

My doctoral project uses ethnographic and multimodal perspectives to highlight the agency and critical significance of artists' collaborative processes in the print-making workshop environment. I approach the print workshop as a peripheral and dialogic space in which a collective semiosis of social, material and technical resources occurs. Through individual case studies of collaborating artists and printers I explore prevailing visual and textual hierarchies in the discourse around print and the underlying paradoxes implicit in such systems.

This research is underpinned by my previous professional experience of working closely with artists in the research, development, exhibition and documentation of contemporary art in arts institutions, international galleries and museums.

At Edinburgh College of Art, I have been a course tutor for the MA History of Art programmes The Cultures and Politics of Display, Research: Theories and Methods and the History of Art Work Placement Programme.