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 | |
| V&A purchased and commissioned 16 prints on paper and aluminium for solo show: ”Textile Images on Paper", Victoria & Albert Museum (Circulation Dept) | |
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 | |
| 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 | |
| Lead Artist at The Point Eastleigh Borough Council(Architects Burrell Foley Fischer) Phase 1 | |
2004 | Solo retrospective exhibition: Crafts Council, London and touring | |
2005 | Founded Site Editions (editions of sculpture for gardens) | |
| Created Professor by the University of the Arts, London 2005 | |
| Created Senior Fellow: Royal College of Art 2005 | |
| Created third Artist Patron: Contemporary Art Society 2005 ( with Anthony Caro, Bridget Riley) | |
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 | |
2016/18 | Solo exhibition “Off the Grid” touring UK public galleries, including Gallery Oldham, Lancashire, The Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent and the Winchester Gallery, University of Southampton | |
2017 | Gave the Fielding Talk “Rebel with a Cause” for the Crafts Council, at St Martin in the Fields, London | |
2018 | Included in “The most real thing: contemporary textiles and sculpture” NewArtCentre, Roche Court | |