| Born: |
North Staffordshire, England |
| Lives and Works: |
West Sussex |
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| Won: |
All art prizes at school |
| Failed: |
Art O-level |
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| 1951-56 |
Cardiff College of Art |
| 1956-63 |
Full-time lecturer in Weave, West Sussex College of Art, Worthing |
| 1960 |
Visitor, Cardiff College of Art |
| 1961-68 |
Student, then tutor, Basic Course (Thubron, Frost, Dalwood etc) and Kenneth Martin, Glamorgan Summer School, Barry |
| 1963-65 |
Part-time lecturer: Croydon College of Art |
| 1967-74 |
Part-time lecturer: North Oxfordshire School of Art, Banbury |
| 1968 |
Guest lecturer, Leeds School of Art (Harry Thubron) |
| 1970 |
Won joint 1st prize: “Sculpture ’70”-Welsh Arts Council Competition |
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V&A purchased and commissioned 16 prints on paper and aluminium for solo show: ”Textile Images on Paper”, Victoria & Albert Museum (Circulation Dept) |
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| 1974 |
Logical colour scheme for Keble College, Oxford. Architects:Ahrends, Burton & Koralek |
| 1977-88 |
On Contemporary Art Society committee |
| 1979 |
Offered two-year residency: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| 1983 |
Buyer (paintings/sculpture) for Contemporary Art Society |
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Buyer of Craft for CAS |
| 1983-present |
Buyer of art for private clients. |
| 1985 |
Large solo exhibition: commissioned to show relationship of weave to the Constructivist collection in Norrkopings Konstmuseum, Sweden (Southern Arts and British Council) |
| 1988-90 |
Member of Government Steering Group “PerCent for Art” |
| 1989 |
Initiated the internationally first walking ‘Gallery Trail’, Arundel Festival (50 temporary art galleries) |
| 1990 |
Consultant: Public Art : Southampton Art Gallery refurb (National Award) |
| 1990-94 |
Trustee: Oxford Artists Group: Chiltern Sculpture Trail |
| 1991 |
Member of the Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) |
| 1992-95 |
Board Member: Southern Arts (Regional Arts Board.) |
| 1996 |
Consultant: Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester (new gallery: advising,commissioning, buying art) |
| 2003 |
National 1st prize: Fine Book Binding Award: BPIF Book Awards |
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Lead Artist at The Point Eastleigh Borough Council(Architects Burrell Foley Fischer) Phase 1 |
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| 2004 |
Solo retrospective exhibition: Crafts Council, London and touring |
| 2005 |
Founded Site Editions (editions of sculpture for gardens) |
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Created Professor by the University of the Arts, London 2005 |
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Created Senior Fellow: Royal College of Art 2005 |
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Created third Artist Patron: Contemporary Art Society 2005 ( with Anthony Caro, Bridget Riley) |
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| 2010 |
Lead Artist at The Point, Eastleigh Phase 2 |
| 2010-present |
Studio research: painting, leading to drawing, leading to spatial drawing |
| 2014 |
Solo exhibition, curated by Gill Hedley. ‘Counterpoint’ at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London |
| 2015 |
Solo exhibition within ‘Collect’, Saatchi Galleries, London. (Invited) |
| 2016 |
Studio research: material combinations, based on the mesh. |
| 2016 |
Represented by Taste at Art Genevre |
| 2016/17 |
Solo exhibition touring UK public galleries, including Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent |