about.

I began my writing career as a journalist - and today have also established myself as an author, biographer and curator. As an internationally published journalist (with bylines in the likes of Abu Dhabi's The National, The Guardian, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Christian Science Monitor & BBC online) I have written most often for Al Jazeera English (AJE) for whom I also served as a Senior Producer in its online team in 2023/24.

From Jan. 2025 until Jan. 2026, however, I will undertake a project with Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums to transcribe the 1909-1959 diaries of Scottish-American artist-adventurer James McBey, the subject of my biography, SHADOWS & LIGHT: The Extraordinary Life of James McBey.

SHADOWS & LIGHT is my first authored book. It was published by Edinburgh's Scotland Street Press in 2022, and was the subject of an exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery in 2023 and at the Udny Arms Hotel, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire in 2025.

Both my book and the exhibitions have garnered significant media coverage, such as from ARTMAG, The Guardian, The Press & Journal, The Sunday National, The National in Abu Dhabi, The Sunday Post, BBC Radio Scotland and STV news.

Since 2022, I have to date delivered 13 separate lectures/talks/exhibitions related to my book:

— The James McBey: His Art, His World exhibition, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire (20 September to 21 September 2025)

— The T.E. Lawrence Society symposium, RAF Museum Hendon, London (21 September 2024)
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— The James McBey Tourist Trail, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire (28 January 2024)
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— Newburgh Village Hall, Aberdeenshire (The James McBey Project Launch — 27 January 2024)
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— Aberdeen Central Library, Aberdeen (Book Week Scotland — 13 November 2023)
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— Tangier American Legation Museum, Tangier, Morocco (1 June 2023)
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— Newburgh Village Hall, Aberdeenshire (7 May 2023)
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— Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (15 April 2023)
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— Scottish Society for Art History (Zoom — 21 March 2023)
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— Egyptian Expeditionary Force in WWI Society (Zoom — 7 March 2023)

— The Shadows & Light art exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery (11 Feb. to 28 May 2023)
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— The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh (15 Dec. 2022)
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— The Gallery Bookshop, Glasgow (Book launch — 2 Dec. 2022)