Statement
I had attended many good evening art classes until a
college tutor suggested I apply to Warwickshire College, Leamington,
where I studied full time under some excellent teachers, obtaining a
Diploma in Higher Education, Fine Art in 2001, after which I graduated
with a good Fine Art degree in 2002 from UCE Birmingham (now Birmingham
University).
I found contemporary art quite absorbing and learned many
other things along the way. I am still practicing and enjoy other ways
of making including painting, a life-long interest, and wood carving.
Recently a small carving was accepted and has now become part of the
long history of London’s Charterhouse (open to the public) in an outside
alcove in Washouse Court.
I realised from an early age that art and making for me
is a life long occupation. My interest lies in growth and form and
environmental issues. Recycled material is preferred, wherever
practicable, and work often triggered by material to hand – art of all
things should not add to the world’s clutter. I am also interested in
natural forms and patterns and the surety that all matter eventually
returns to nature.
Commissions
October
2008 Charter House,
London EC – wood carving
Selected Exhibitions
Feb to Mar
2009 Solo Exhibition at Pastelaria
Portugesa, Warwick – 8 acrylic paintings.
July
2008
LSA Summer Exhibition, Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa – 2 acrylic
paintings
July
2008
Warwickshire Arts Week, Golf Lane Allotment “Plot on the
EdGe”
- Installation
July
2007
LSA Open Summer Exhibition, Warwickshire College, Leamington - School of
Art Gallery –
3 wood carvings.
April
2007
Woodex exhibition, Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, Nr Leamington Spa -
wood carving – commended.
January
2007 Sense Scotland – 7th Helen
Keller International Award at the University of Strathclyde -: Wood
carving
July 2006
LSA Open Exhibition, Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa – Acrylic
Painting.
March 2006
Shortlisted for show – Wild Weather Costume “Global WarNing” design,
make and model - MAD UK Ltd –
Belgrade Theatre – shown at Ricoh Centre, Coventry.
2004 July
2005
Short listed for show – Food of Love Costume design, make and model -
“Jelly and Cream” MAD UK Ltd –
Belgrade Theatre, shown at the Motor Museum, Coventry.
July 2004
Warwickshire Arts week, LSA Selected Exh., University of Warwick,
Library Gallery, Coventry – acrylic painting.
May to
June 2004 Group Exhibition, “Beneath the
Surface”, CAW Gallery, Leamington Spa –
Constructed sculpture and carved sculpture with photography.
August 2003
3rd Prize “Paradise” costume. Coventry MAD Design UK in
conjunction with:
The Belgrade Theatre & Shaskeen Carnival design, make and model.
Printed Banner Design for Impact III, South Africa “Do-Don’t/Can-Can’t” curated by Carinna Parraman of the Centre for Fine Print Research,
University of the West of England, Bristol for the 3rd Impact
International Printmaking Conference, Michaelis School of Fine Art,
University of Cape Town, South Africa, and co-hosted with Rhodes
University School of Fine Art - re: “The impact of prints in a social,
political and cultural context”.
Dec
2002
Group Exhibition, “Take Off” – degree work
The Grid, Harborough Magna.
June
2002
Degree Show, “Deduce”,
University of Central England, BIAD,
Birmingham
Short listed for Associated Architects Award.
Nov
2001
Group Exhibition, “Inside Out”,
BIAD, Birmingham – sculpture.
May 2001
Group Exhibition, Custard Factory, Birmingham – sculpture – childhood
woodland revisited.
Sept
1999
Open Exhibition, Heart of England Biennial,
Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry – large unstretched acrylic
painting/collage.
1997
Group Exhibition with Coventry Technical College
The Butts held at the Motor Museum, Coventry - acrylic
paintings.
Voluntary work
Sept
2003
Artsfest, Birmingham - Manipulation of mammoth puppets
July 2003
Edgewick Park School, Foleshill, Coventry – Working with a class of
making sculptures of :
wood, straws, polystyrene, twigs and foil each child producing a silver
bird in a bird cage.
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