Awards & Commissions:
2023 – Man Booker Prize binding for Paul Lynch’s ‘Prophet Song’.
2023 – Winner Heritage Crafts ‘Trainer of the Year Award’.
2022 – Distinguished winner Designer Bookbinders International Competition.
2022 – Magazine feature – Scottish Field
2022 – Relocation of bindery & studio to West Kilbride – Craft Town Scotland.
2021 – Man Booker Prize binding for Anuk Arudpragasm’s ‘A Passage North.
2019 – Man Booker prize binding for Lucy Ellmann’s ‘Ducks Newburyport’.
2018 – Exhibitor at ‘Collect 2018’ – Saatchi Gallery, London.
2017 – Man Booker prize binding for Ali Smith’s ‘Autumn.
2017 – Distinguished winner Designer Bookbinders International Competition.
2017 – Exhibitor at ‘Collect 2017’, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2016 – Judging panel member of NLS ‘Elizabeth Soutar’ Bookbinding Competition.
2014 – Man Booker prize binding for neel Mukherjee’s ‘The Lives of Others’.
2014 – Elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders.
2013 – BBC Radio Scotland ‘The Book Cafe’.
2013 – Overall winner Designer Bookbinders annual competition – awarded Mansfield Medal.
2013 – Society of Bookbinders International Competition – best book by a non-professional binder.
2013 – Craft bindery opened at Courtyard Studios, Irvine.
2012 – BBC radio Scotland interview.
2012 – Overall winner Designer Bookbinders annual competition, awarded Mansfield medal.
2011 – John Coleman Perpetual award for fine bookbinding.
2011 – Overall winner in Society of Bookbinders International Competition.
2010 – Elected Licentiate member of Designer Bookbinders.
2010 – Runner-up ‘Set Book’ designer Bookbinders Competition
2009 – Winner ‘Impact’ category Society of Bookbinders Competition.
2009 – Runner-up ‘Set Book’ Designer Bookbinders Competition.
2007 – Winner National Library of Scotland’s ‘Soutar Bookbinding Competition’.
2006 – Student entry winner National Library of Scotland’s ‘Soutar Bookbinding Competition’.