CV

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 No Sudden Moves, West Berkshire Museum, Newbury
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 往返, Peacock Gallery, Reading  
2016 The peace which passes..., OHOS, Reading    
2011 From here on in, Corn Exchange, Newbury  
1988 Artist of the Day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
The Unknown, Lichtundfire, New York
2025
The Edge of Abstraction, The BASE, Thatcham
Small but Mighty, Bankside Gallery, London
Bohemian Rhapsody, Lichtundfire, New York
The Sound of Silence, Lichtundfire, New York
2024
SFSA Drawing Open. no format Gallery, Deptford
40th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2023
Condition Critical, 571 Gallery, Reading
39th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
SFSA Drawing Open, no format Gallery, Deptford
2022
38th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
SFSA Drawing Open, no format Gallery, Deptford
Altered States, Shaw House, Newbury
Of Geometry and Gods, Side by Side, Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere
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 selected by Katherine Bradford, IPC, New York  
2016
4th Intl Juried Print, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico  
Shifting States, Espacio Gallery, London  
Innervisions selected by Dan Walsh, 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  
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  
1994-2006
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

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

AWARDS
2021
Eaton Fund
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant (Relations, Stories, Magic)
2020
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant  (Absent Authors)
Arts Council Emergency Response Fund
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant  (Of Geometry & Gods Side by Side)  
2019
Highly commended by Jonathan Baldock, 35th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust  
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant  (No Eden)
2017
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust  
1983
Purchase prize, Tyne Tees Northern Open  
1982
First prize in Magnolia Mouldings National Landscape Competition

CURATION, PROJECTS& RESIDENCIES
2024 CROP I, residency at the Riverside Museum, Reading
2021 Absent Authors, APT Gallery, London  
2016 WordUp! collaboration with Peter Driver for Reading's Year of Culture

COLLECTIONS
Sunderland University  
Magnolia Mouldings  
Reading University  
Angela Flowers Gallery  
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
West Berkshire Museum  
And private collections in UK, Europe and China

PUBLICATIONS, TALKS & MEDIA
2024 ‘Forests of Dreamland’, Redden Press. Discussion with Heather McAteer
2022 In conversation with Tess Charnley at Nuneaton Museum
2022 Podcast: Considering Art with Bob Chaundy
2021 Feature in Imagine magazine, vol.1
2021 ‘Housebound’, Chapel Arts Studios, exhibition catalogue
2020 Review of 'Threads: Two Generations of Painters through Time'  
2020 Interview with Anna McNay for Studio International  
2020 Public talk 'Background and Influences', Friends of Reading Museum  
2019. Panel discussion with Dr. Rebecca Johnson, Güler Ates & Kirsty Harris  
2019 In conversation with Lucy Cox at Greenham Control Tower
2018 In conversation with Lucy Cox at no format Gallery (live event & film)  
2018 Interviewed by Laura Brown for Bloop Magazine  
2018 Interviewed by Lucy Cox for Painters Today podcast, episode 7  
2018 ‘SOLDIER’ exhibition catalogue
2018 Editorial Team selection for ArtMaze Mag, issue 6, January  
2017 Featured image in Discerning Eye catalogue  
2016 Talk: ‘The peace that passes all understanding’, OHOS, Reading  
2016 Talk: ‘Forms of Exchange: the journey from source to motif’, NGA
2015 ‘Eliza's Entertainments’, images for poetry by Adrian Blamires  
2014 Interview on the Palette Pages  
2014 ‘Transformations’, a contemporary working of Ovid's Metamorphoses  
2014 ‘Heaven + Hell’, catalogue with an essay by Anna McNay  
2012 FAD News Q&A  
2010 ‘From here on in’ exhibition catalogue, essay by Adrian Blamires  
1988 ‘Artist of the Day’, exhibition catalogue, Angela Flowers Gallery