BornOxford 1955

1973 – 75Foundation Course, Bourneville School of Art and Crafts, Birmingham

1975 – 78Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, BA (Hons.) Fine Art

1978 – 79Birmingham Polytechnic, Postgraduate Certificate of Education

 

RECENT COMMISSIONS AND PROJECTS

2011FIRST LIGHT, site-specific light sculpture installation, Lincoln Cathedral

2011‘I AM,’ light sculpture installation, The Collection museum, Lincoln

2011FIRST LIGHT ON TOUR, East Midlands Cultural Olympiad light
2011sculpture touring project, May to December:

May 2011:‘After Tavener,’ site-specific installation, Boston Stump, Boston

May 2011:‘Tavener in the Fens,’ sculpture/music collaborative project with
2009Fiori Musicali and cellist Alfia Napibekova, Boston Stump

June 2011:‘Solar 1,’ installation, All Saints’ Church, Nocton, Lincs.

July 2011:‘Solar 1,’ installation, St. Mary's Church, Marschapel, Lincs.

Sep –First Light (new configuration), 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
Dec 2011:

Oct 2011:‘I Am’ (No. 2), site-specific installation, St. Denys Church, Sleaford, Lincs.

2011FIVE LIGHT CUBES, installation commisioned by artsNK for SaFire Festival,
2011Branston, Lincs

 

AWARDS

2011Inspire Mark awarded by LOGOC to First Light On Tour project

2011Igniting Ambition East Midlands Cultural Olympiad Award

2010Arts Council England Grant for the Arts Award

2009University of Hertfordshire Sculpture Prize, UH Galleries Eastern Approaches
2009Sculpture Exhibition

2009Visitors’ Choice Award, Hatfield House, Herts.

2003Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award

2000W.C.W. James OBE Memorial Trust Laudatory Award

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS

2012London Bridge City Sculpture Exhibition 2011 - 2012

2011Isis at Bear Pit, London

2011Trajector Art Fair, Brussels

2009Eastern Approaches Sculpture Exhibition, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire

2008In A Pure Land, Isis Gallery, London, sculptural installation with New York artists
2008Alyson Shotz and Nayland Blake, with music by Simon Fisher-Turner

2005 – 12Cass Foundation, Goodwood Sculpture Park, W. Sussex

2003 – 04Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

2001 – 02Pentigili, Pembrokeshire touring exhibition,
2001 – 02Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, St. David’s

2000Salon 2000, Limner Gallery, New York

2000Showcase Wales, Museum of Modern Art, Wales

2000Today Is Enough, MOMA, Wales

2000Art West, Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen;  touring to Scolton Manor,
2000Haverfordwest; Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth

2000Reflections, Southside Arts, Southampton

1999Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Anglesey

 

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (Paintings and 2D light works)

2003Three Triptychs, Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln

2001Through a Glass Darkly, Museum of Modern Art, Wales

2001Untitled, West Wales Arts Centre, Pembrokeshire

1999Recent Work, West Wales Arts Centre, Pembrokeshire

 

COLLECTIONS

Cass Foundation

Museum of Modern Art, Wales

The Dean and Chapter, Lincoln Cathedral

artsNK

Private collections in Switzerland, Germany and Holland, USA and UK

 

SELECTED MEDIA/BIBLIOGRAPHY

London Bridge City Sculpture Exhibition 2011 – 2012, catalogue

ACE journal Issue 66, Cathedral Commissions, Summer 2011

Arts project lights the way to Olympic Games, Grimsby Telegraph, July 9th, 2011

First Light On Tour, TV interview, Look North, BBC Lincolnshire, April 14th, 2011

First Light On Tour, radio interview, BBC Lincolnshire, April 14th, 2011

First Light On Tour, Igniting Ambition Festival 2011 publications, April 2011

First Light, review by John de Wit, April 2011

Illumination and Space, Crosslincs, Lent issue 2011

Sculptures Stand Bold, Lincolnshire Echo, March 19th, 2011

First Light online diary, 2010 – 2011:

In a Pure Land, music recording by Simon Fisher-Turner, Isis Editions 2008

Cass Sculpture, Cass Foundation Publications 2007

Who’s Who in Welsh Art 1945 – 1999, ed. Peter Jones and Steven Hill

Discovering Shades in the Dark, Western Mail, Nov. 5th, 2001

Pembrokeshire Painters, Rosedale Publications, 1990

 

PUBLIC LECTURES

2011Light in Art, All Saints’ Church, Nocton, Lincs.

2011First Light lecture, Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral

2003Materials and Metaphysics, School of Art, University of Lincoln

2001Untitled: the artists’s work, West Wales Arts Centre

1999Graham Sutherland, National Art Collection Fund, Scolton Manor, Pembrokeshire

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2003 – 06Part-time tutor in art/art history, Workers’ Educational Association,
2003 – 06East Midlands Region

2001 – 03Part-time tutor in art, School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham

1992 – 2001Part-time tutor in art history, Centre for Continuing Education,
1992 – 2001University of Wales, Aberystwyth

1991 – 92Part-time lecturer in art and architecture, Pembrokeshire College, Haverfordwest