CURRENT ACTIVITY
Practising Artist
Represented by Newbloodart.com
EDUCATION
2015-17
MA Drawing UAL Wimbledon
1997-00
Fine Art BA [hons] Degree, Norwich School of Art and Design.
AWARDS
2025
Selected for Himalayan Sculpture Park and Garden, Ripon, Yorkshire
2023
Shortlisted and Selected for the Evening Standard Contemporary Art Prize
2022
The Society of Graphic Fine Art
2021
The Society of Graphic Fine Art
Figurative Art Now
2020
Shortlisted and Selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
2019
Colchester Art Society, Judges selection for Beecroft*
2018
SFSA Painting OpenNo Format gallery., Deptford London SE8
Seven Artists in Sevenoaks, Kaleidoscope gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
Mixed Exhibition, Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal*
2017
Maggie Clarke sketchbook prize. UAL Wimbledon.
1997
South Bank, London. Millennium Banner exhibition winner*
June ’97 –Nov‘99
Banners hanging outside LWT and The Oxo Tower, The Cut, Waterloo, London
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2024
Green Minds Therapy Garden, Wedgwood House, West Suffolk Hospital
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Himalayan Sculpture Park, Ripon, Yorkshire
Arctic Circle @ Gallery Napa, Lappi, Finland
2024
Side By Side @ No Format Gallery, Deptford. London
2024
Tom Faulkner Showroom, Pimlico, London
Fraction, Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket, Suffolk
SAS Exhibition, Sudbury, Suffolk*
2023
What If..? SVFA, Kaleidoscope, Sevenoaks, Kent
Evening Standard Art Prize Cromwell Galleries, London
Contemporary Landscapes, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
Spring Show AKA Gallery, Cambridge
Drawing Open, SFSA, Deptford, London
My Body in my Hands, SVA, Stroud, Gloucestershire
East Cliffe House Gallery, Mistley, Essex
H.B. Drawing at SVAF, Sevenoaks, Kent
2022
Deben Soundings Project, Artspace, Woodbridge
The Society of Graphic Fine Art @ The Mall Galleries
ArtGarden, Cambridge
NoFormat Drawing, Deptford
The Whittaker Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester*
About the Size of It, Mistley
2021
Timeframe, NoFormat, Deptford
In Conversation With, Mistle, Essex
Definitions of Drawing @ Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds*
The Society of Graphic Fine Art @ The mall Galleries
Figurative Art Now @ The mall Galleries
HB Drawing @ The Black barn, Suffolk
In Conversation With @ East Cliff House Gallery, Essex
Timeframe @ No Format Gallery, Deptford, London
2020
Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing Prize @ Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge @ Cooper Gallery, Dundee. @ Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. @ The gallery Arts University, Bournemouth
Found in Translation, https://foundintranslationonline.wordpress.com
Borders, Firstsite, Colchester*
Fifty Bees, Black Arts, Frome, Somerset
2019
Snapshot, No Format Gallery, London SE14
Out of the Wood, Bleddfa Art Centre, Radnorshire, Wales
Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail, Raveningham, Norfolk
Colchester Art Society, Open Selection, Minories, Colchester
Cabinet Collections, Espacio gallery, Bethnal Green, London E1*
Hollow Chambers Project, Euston Rd, London
2018
Dissecting the Archive. UAL Wimbledon Gallery.
Black Barn, Iken, Suffolk (curated and exhibited)
Selected for Ipswich Art Club Annual Exhibition. The Art Gallery, Ipswich *
Brick Lane Gallery, London E1*
2017
MA Degree Show, UAL Wimbledon
Unframed – work inspired by the British Museum Prints and Drawings Department, Wimbledon Gallery
Artist in Residence Shotley Peninsula Festival of Arthur Ransome, Suffolk
Same Difference, Cass Art, 103, Clarence St. Kingston, KT1 1QY
2016
In The Frame, Wimbledon College of Art
Drawn Together, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent
Out of Line, C4RD, Highbury Station rd, N1
SAS Exhibition, Sudbury, Suffolk*
2015
Art on the Prom, Felixstowe, Suffolk - commissioned installation
2014/15
Open House, Brighton Festival
2011
Rural Collusions culmination of Residencies, see above.
Rural Idyll – Selector, Curator, Host, Exhibitor
2010
Solo show – Paintings. Frame Workshop Gallery, Ipswich
2009
Wildlife in Ipswich Town Hall Gallerie*
2006
Sexhibition, ‘Teenage sexual health’ Stowhealth, Stowmarket *
2004
Blank Page - A group of freelance artists called ‘Creative Freelance’ making a ‘book’. Exhibiting in Christchurch mansions, Ipswich, Suffolk for IP-Art July This book is now archived in the museum gallery
2002
24 hour video viewing @ Colchester Art Centre *
2002
Over The River, Firstsite Gallery @ The Minories, Colchester *
2000
Skip Art Exhibition, Foxburrow Farm, Melton, Suffolk for YOA *
RESIDENCIES
2023
1 week San Giuliano, Sicily
2 weeks Viarco, Fabrica Portuguese de Lapis, oporto, Portugal
2022
Mawwdach Residency Wales
2019
The Rodd Residency, Sydney Nolan Trust, Leominster, Wales
Drawing Breath, Umbria, Italy
2018
Butley Mills Studios Artist Residency July/August
2017
Artist in Residence Shotley Peninsula Festival of Arthur Ransome, Suffolk
2010-11
Rural Collusions project at Thornham Estates, Suffolk and Lackford lakes, Suffolk work still in place 5 years later.
Sept 2006
Key Arts at St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich
Mar-June 2004
Rural Idyll? Little Dodnash Farm, Bentley, Ipswich
May 2003
Crear, Lochgilphead, Scotland. Sculptors residency.
Sept. 00-Dec. 00
Year of the Artist, East of England Arts. ‘Skip Art’ Working on a Suffolk Landfill site and with a skip company.
Dec. 00
Exhibition of work at Suffolk Wildliferust, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013
Visualising the Rural – Conference at The University of Cumbria*
2011
Hosted, created and exhibited in one week residency and exhibition “RURAL IDYLL’
2010-11
Artist in Residence at Thornham Hall Estate and Lackford lakes SuffolkWildlifeTrust
GENERAL SINCE 2000
Practising artist / Teaching at Otley College, Suffolk/ Committee member with Key Arts - artists’ for Artists space, Ipswich/ Curating and Managing Rural Idyll Residency and exhibition/ Art workshops for: Wolsey gallery, Christchurch Mansions, Ipswich & First Site Gallery, Colchester, Year of the Artist / Suffolk Open Studios Media representative.
* invited