Biography
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Group Exhibitions/performance
Menier Gallery, The London Group Open Exhibition, Southwark, London, November 2009
Fowle Hall Features III (guest artist) Paddock Wood, Kent, June 2009
Graham Clarke Gallery, Nucleus Showcase, Maidstone, Kent, May 2009
New Art Centre, Nucleus Showcase, Chatham, Kent, April 2009
Nucleus Rochester, Nucleus Arts, Rochester, Kent, December 2008
The Furnace, The Happening, Balham, London, February 2008
Clayton Gallery, Summer Show, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 1997
Hatton Gallery, Degree show exhibition, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, July 1997 (Painting selected as gift to the late Catherine Cookson.)
Bodies of Work
Painted Verse, Oil and acrylic paintings, 2009.
Collaboration with Poet and soundscape artist, Philip Grieve.
Painting the Numinous, Mixed media paintings, 2006 – 2009. Exploration of the mystic tradition through non-figuration.
The cloud and the Pillar series, Mixed media paintings, 1995 -1997. Exploration of Historicism through paintings of archetypal figures and implied narrative.
Workshops
Childrens’ art/craft workshop on Cutty Sark, 2003
Childrens’ summer scheme (Medway council) Group leader art/craft workshops, 1995, 1996.
Education
2000 – 2002 University of North London (now London Metropolitan University)
MA Arts and Heritage Management (dissertation ‘An Analysis of the Relationship between Medium and Meaning in Contemporary Art.’)
1993-1997 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree (2:1)
1991-1993 Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury
BTEC National Diploma in General Art and
Design (merit)
Affiliations
Member of Artists Interaction and Representation (AIR)
