Selected Exhibitions
2024. The Art Court Spring Exhibition, Leeds.
2024. Material Truths, Royal Society of Sculptors members, opo art space, Scarborough
2023. Borrow Pit, Huddersfield Art Gallery
2023. NYOS, Inspired Gallery, N.Yorks Moors National Park
2022. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2022. Raw Edge, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
2021. Passages, The Old Parcel Office, Scarborough
2021. Shaping the Landscape, Cannon Hall and Wentworth Castle, Barnsley
2020. Invasive Species, Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate
2019. Object/Image/Image/Object, West Yorkshire Print Warehouse
2019. Temporal Terrains, Dean Clough, Halifax
2019. (im)Material Disarray, YSI Index, Snap Arts, Wakefield
2019. Conversations in Sculpture, Huddersfield Art Gallery
2019. Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Newby Hall, North Yorkshire
2019. Breaking Ground, Patchings Art Centre, Notts
2018. Travelling Light, Todmorden, West Yorks and Baltimore Exchange, Maryland, USA
2018. Connexions, Dean Clough, Halifax
2017. Separation 1, Dean Clough Halifax and 11, Dye House Gallery, Bradford
2016. Sculptures in the Garden, Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens, York
2016. Resonance, Beverley Minster
2015 Contemporary Sculpture, Burnby Hall Gardens, Pocklington
2015. Floribunda, Dean Clough, Halifax
2014. Lines of Conflict, WW1, Batley Art Gallery
2013. Shelf Life, The Shed Gallery, Ilkley
2013. Leeds Fine Art Show, North Light Gallery, Huddersfield
2012. Lines of Conflict, Scarborough Art Gallery
2012. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2011. Cement and Concrete Science, Imperial College, London
2011. Living with Minerals, CBI Conference, Westminster, London
2010. 18@108, Naked, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
2010. Thirteen Moons, Kala Sangham, Bradford
2009. 157 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2008. AA2A Exhibition, Leeds College of Art & Design
2008. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2007. Breathing Space, Brahm Gallery, Leeds
2006. Quarries and Collaborations, Centenary Gallery, Leeds University
2005. MIST Group Exhibition, Clothworkers Hall, Leeds University
2005. DomestiCITY, solo exhibition of photography, Brahm Gallery, Leeds
Education/Awards
2020. Arts Council Grant
2018+ Ceramics at Harrogate College
2010/11. Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Civil Engineering, University of Leeds
2009. Elected Member, Royal Society of Sculptors
2009. Elected Member Yorkshire Sculptors Group
2007/8. AA2A Residency, Leeds College of Art
2006. Multi-sensory Art Project, Pyramid of the Arts
2006. Pyramid of Arts Training `(working with adults with learning disabilities)
2006. Yorkshire Quarry Arts placement, Coldstones Quarry, Pately Bridge
2004. Jackdaw Quarry Placement, N. Yorks
2004. City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate in Delivering Learning, Park Lane College
2004. MA Fine Art (with merit), University of Leeds
2002. BA Hons Sculpture (class 1) Bretton Hall, University of Leeds
1998. BTEC Diploma Art & Design (distinction), Leeds College of Art
1978. BA Hons History of Art (class2.1), University of Manchester
Employment
Current: Studio work (Self employed since 2004)
Artist in Education at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (since 2005)
Artist for Pyramid of the Arts, Leeds, leading sculpture workshops for adults with learning disabilities (from 2006)
1995-2002 Christie’s, St James’s, London, Picture Specialist (based in Yorkshire)
1979-1995 Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers, Picture valuer and auctioneer (Leeds)
1978-1979 Assistant, Venice Committee of the International Fund for Monuments, Venice, Italy
Talks and Publications
2012. Sculptural Concrete: A process lead investigation into fluidity, expanded form and tactility, The Royal Society. London
2012. Visiting Speaker, BA Art and Design, University of Leeds
2010. Sculptors on Sculpture, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
2009. Layers of Response, Landscape and Arts Network, Pateley Bridge
2008. The Naked Quarry, published by Yorkshire Quarry Arts