CV

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  
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  
2023
Condition Critical, 571 Gallery, Reading
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, 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, Reading2011  
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

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  
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 AND PROJECTS  
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  
And private collections in UK, Europe and China

PUBLICATIONS, TALKS & MEDIA  
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