Whilst studying for a BA at Edinburgh College of Art from 1995 to 1998, McVeigh ran a funk, reggae, and rare groove night club named 'Chocolate City' with her then boyfriend Jamie Byng,[2] publisher and managing director of Canongate Books, whom she married in 1996 and with whom she has two children, Leo and Marley.
She has travelled extensively to carry out her practice and has held residencies in India, Mexico, China and the Nirox Foundation in South Africa.
[5] Exhibitions include Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists' Visions at the Getty Villa, Los Angeles [6] Inventory: Invisible Companion at St Peter's Church, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.,[7] solo project at the Gervasuti Foundation for the 55th Venice Biennale Hunting Song.
[9] McVeigh made a film-based artwork during a trip to Syria to create Sight of Memory, screened in Icastica Arezzo 2013.
[11] 'Birth': Origins at the end of life' shown at the Reynolds Room at Royal Academy [12] as part of an annual event with St Christopher's.