Working with inherited memories and other people's narratives deconstructed and reimagined gives me a framework to explore figurative conventions across cultures. I create figures that are somehow at odds with their environment or each other, perhaps caught in a dramatic entanglement or tableau. In recent work figures seem to emerge or retreat from their surroundings with their entrances
Working with inherited memories and other people's narratives deconstructed and reimagined gives me a framework to explore figurative conventions across cultures. I create figures that are somehow at odds with their environment or each other, perhaps caught in a dramatic entanglement or tableau. In recent work figures seem to emerge or retreat from their surroundings with their entrances and exits achieved through the intersection of strange morphologies that shift with every reading.
BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION
1960 Born Nuneaton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Since 1984 lives and works in Reading, Berkshire
1984-86 University of Reading, MFA (Painting)
1983-84 Studio with Sunderland Artists Group
1980-83 Sunderland Polytechnic, BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class)
1979-80 Coventry Lanchester Polytechnic
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Relations, Stories, Magic, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery
2019 NO EDEN, Greenham Common Control Tower, Newbury
2018 Companion Pieces, no format Gallery, Deptford
2018 SOLDIER, Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere
2017 To & Fro ??, Peacock Gallery, Reading
2016 The peace which passes..., OHOS, Reading
2013 The Heart’s Long Coast, More Arts, Wokingham
2011 Recent paintings, Meller Merceux Gallery, Oxford
2011 From here on in, Corn Exchange, Newbury
1988 Artist of the Day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Altered States, Shaw House, Newbury
Of Geometry and Gods, Side by Side, Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere
SFSA Drawing Open, no format Gallery, Deptford
38th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2021
TILT 2021, Hoxton Gallery, London
Absent Authors, APT Gallery, London
2020
Hastings Open, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings
After the Pandemic - Visions for Radical Renewal, Swarm Dynamics, Are.na
HouseBound: Bathroom, CAS, curated by Susan Francis
2019
SFSA Painting Open, no format Gallery, Deptford
35th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
In Reading Gaol by Reading Town, Turbine House, Riverside Museum, Reading
Creekside Open, selected by Sacha Craddock, APT Gallery, London
Triangulations, OHOS, Reading
2018
SFSA Painting Open, Deptford, London
Imago, OHOS, Reading
Diptych, Triptych, Polyptych, PS Mirabel, Manchester
Open Exhibition, NN Contemporary, Northampton
2017
Winter Salon: Power Play, The Concept Space, London
Rye Winter Salon, Rye Creative Centre, Rye, Sussex
SFSA Painting Open, No Format Gallery, London
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
As it stands, 100 Years Gallery, London
Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester
New Prints / Summer, IPC, New York
Chaos, Contrasts, Change, OHOS, Reading
2016
4th Intl Juried Print, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Shifting States, Espacio Gallery, London
Innervisions, International Print Center, New York
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Spectrum, PS Mirabel, Manchester
2015
MONO II, Espacio Gallery, London
Desire Lines, OHOS, Reading
Print as Verb, OHOS, Reading
Colour & Materials, Espacio Gallery, London
TwitterArtExhibit, Moss, Norway
2014
Heaven + Hell, Espacio Gallery, London
Hanging Tough, OHOS, Reading
A Book about Death, Royal Cambrian Society, Wales
Constellation, Reading Museum and Art Gallery
Original Print Fair, Espacio Gallery, London
2013
Strata, Espacio Gallery, London
Emergence, Espacio Gallery, London
2012
Original Print Fair, Espacio Gallery, London
Face to Face, Espacio Gallery, London
Viewpoints, Espacio Gallery, London
Echo, OHOS, Reading
2011
Would you like and why not? OHOS, Reading
Take off, New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury
Send Me A Postcard Darling, The Red Gate Gallery, London
NUIT BLANCHE: Parcel Fever, OHOS, Reading
2009
KAMIEN (Stone) e-mail Art Project, MOKSiR Chelmek, Poland
1994-2000
Numerous shows at the Jelly Leg'd Chicken Gallery, Reading
1988
Berkshire Artists Group Show, Windsor Arts Centre
1987
Four Painters, Darlington Arts Centre
Take Six, Chisenhale Studios, London
1986
Three Painters, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough
1983
Sunderland Artists Group Show, Washington Arts Centre
Northern Artists, Gallery Seven, Newcastle
Tyne Tees Northern Open, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle and tour
Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester
1982
Engelsk Grafikk, Gallery F15, Norway
AWARDS
2017 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust
1983 Purchase prize, Tyne Tees Northern Open
1982 First prize in Magnolia Mouldings National Landscape Competition
CURATION AND PROJECTS
2016 WordUp! Multi-site collaboration with Peter Driver for Reading's Year of Culture
2013 Curation and installation of Searching, Always @Gallery49, Bracknell
COLLECTIONS
Sunderland University
Magnolia Mouldings
Reading University
Angela Flowers Gallery
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
And private collections in UK, Europe and China
PUBLICATIONS, TALKS & MEDIA
2018: SOLDIER: art & poetry with readings by Adrian Blamires, Sandham Memorial Chapel
2018: Editorial Team selection for ArtMaze Mag, issue 6, January
2017: Featured image in Discerning Eye catalogue
2016: Forms of Exchange, talk on the journey from source to motif, New Greenham Arts
2015: Eliza's Entertainments, images to accompany poetry by Adrian Blamires
2015: Cover to Cover, a sketchbook project, ISBN 978-0-9932232-1-1
2014: Interview on the Palette Pages
2014: Transformations, a contemporary working of Ovid's Metamorphoses, ISBN 978-1-292-68852-8
2014: Heaven + Hell, exhibition catalogue with an introductory essay by Anna McNay
2012: FAD News Q&A
2010: FROM HERE ON IN exhibition catalogue, with an introductory essay by Adrian Blamires
1988: Artist of the Day, exhibition catalogue, Angela Flowers Gallery
