His early years were spent growing up in Wigtown, a small town of around 1000 people in the Machars area of Wigtownshire.
In 2004 Adrian directed the music video "Summer Jets" for Ivor Novello award-winning, singer/ songwriter Iain Archer (ex-Snow Patrol and Reindeer Section guitarist).
This was nominated for XFM Music Video of the year 2004, alongside the artists Eminem, Franz Ferdinand, The Streets and The Killers.
In 2008, Adrian directed 2 episodes (#96 and #102) of the long running Scottish crime drama Taggart for the ITV network.
In 2009, Adrian was included in a pool of eight writer directors as part of the filmmakers collective Advance Party II - the successor to Sigma Films and Zentropa's Advance Party which produced Andrea Arnorld's Cannes Jury Prize winning feature film Red Road, and Morag McKinnon's Rounding Up Donkeys.