Fueled by a playful love of, and wonder for the world around her.
Middleton achieved a BA(Hons) in Photographic and Electronic Media from Gray’s School of Art in 2008 along with notable awards.
Her focus at that point was installation art which triggered a fascination with understanding the role of perception and experience in art. Over the past couple of decades her art has moved into the realms of painting with a particular love of painting at live events, capturing something of the collective and spiritual experience on canvas.
Interconnectivity, relativity and representation of reality are all ideas that continue to fascinate her and that run through her work.
Fueled by a playful love of, and wonder for the world around her, Middleton has spent the years since art school focused on painting and drawing as a core medium winning awards in this field too.
She has travelled to many places around the world but now lives in North Aberdeenshire with her husband, daughter and spaniel in a place she now thinks of as paradise.
Awards & Recognition
‘Portraits’ Bronze Award, Camelback Gallery (international juried competition) - 2022
‘Shades of Purple’ (Portrait) Bronze Award, Camelback Gallery (international juried competition) -
2022
Prize winner for 2 paintings, New Pitsligo Visual Arts Show - 2022
‘Shades of Green’ Bronze Award, Camelback Gallery (international juried competition) - 2022
‘In the Wild’ Semifinalist, The Artist Lounge (international juried competition) - 2021
Project Slogan Graduate Award – 2008
Artist’s profile interview – Snafu Magazine - 2008
ROAR Emerging Scottish Artists (Best of Scotland’s Art schools) - 2008
Invitational Exhibitions
Spotlight artist - Larks Gallery - Ballater, 2023
‘new’ – Beautiful Mountain – Aberdeen, 2009
‘ROAR’ – Emerging Scottish Artists – Oxo Bargehouse, London, 2008
‘Project Slogan 2nd Space Opening’ – Project Slogan, Aberdeen, 2008
Group Exhibitions:
New Pitsligo Visual Arts Show, 2022
‘Shades of Green’ - Camelback Gallery online exhibition, 2022
‘In the Wild’ - The Artist Lounge online exhibition, 2021
Mixed Show, (inc Alan Robb RSA & Calum Colvin RSA OBE), The Richard Colquhoun Gallery,
Aberdeen, 2014
‘Touch, Anoint, Feel’ – (touring exhibition), CIVA, North America, 2012-2017
‘Gray’s School of Art Student Degree Show’ – Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, 2008
‘RSA Student Exhibition’ – RSA, Edinburgh, 2008
‘Margins’ – Limousine Bull, Aberdeen, 2007
‘Exhibition of Photography and Drawing’ – Gilcomston Park Church Building, Aberdeen, 2006
Collaborative Art/Exhibitions
‘Plinktober’ – (a body of ink based artwork created in collaboration with musician Dan Middleton in
response to daily prompts over the month of October) YouTube, 2020
Other Artistic Experience
Invitational live artist at Kingdom Come Mission School -Glasgow 2025
Invitational live artist at Filling Station Moray - Elgin 2025
Invitational live artist at Refuel festival - Fochabers 2024
Invitational live artist at Filling Station Buchan - Maud 2023 onwards
Invitational live artist at Inspire - Mintlaw 2024
Invitational live artist and workshop lead at Refuel On the Road - Mintlaw 2023
Invitational live artist at Tabernacle - Lindisfarne 2022
Guest speaker on ‘The Thriving Christian Artist’ podcast 2022 https://youtu.be/uVjezdW8ruI
Public art mural - ‘Bottlenosed Bubbles’ - Peterhead 2022
Drawing/painting portraiture commissions - 2015 onwards
Drawing/painting YouTube Channel - 2020 onwards
Artist in residence – WHO conference, Forres, 2014
Documentarian – Homeless in New York, 2008/9
Hurricane relief in New Orleans, 2009
Art Facilitator – Schools in Ruiru and Lamu, Kenya, April 2009
Photography Support Tutor & Photographer – Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Aberdeen,
2008
Official Photographer – Fair Trade festival, 2009
Imagine festival, 2007 & 2008
Photographer – Various weddings, Portraiture etc 2007 - 2009
Voluntary work with various organisations including – YMCA & Teen Challenge 1996 onwards
Education
BA(Hons) Photographic and Electronic Media - Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, 2004-2008
Mass Communication, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, 2007
