Selected recent one man shows

2011 Plymouth Arts Centre (Nov)
2011 Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery
2010 Station, Bristol
2010 Torquay Museum
2009 Museum of North Devon “Vivarium”
2009 Coldharbour, Uffcolme “Vivarium”
2009 , Torrington
2008 Gloucestershire University “Fisherman’s Rock”
2007 Brewhouse, Taunton “liberte, fraternite, egalite”
2006 British Academy, London “Science and Romanticism”
2006 Exeter University
2005 Praxis, Bideford “Charms against the Powerful”
2005 Swimbridge (Artsculture)
2005 Beaford Arts
2005 Abbey Arts, London
2005 Station/Golden Guinea, Bristol
2002 Barnstaple + Torrington “Allegory of Love”
2000 Plymouth Arts Centre
1999 Bartley Drew Gallery, London
1998 Dartington Hall, Dartington

Selected recent mixed shows

2004 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2004 “Naked” Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2003 Jerwood Drawing Prize (touring)

Commissions

2008 “Vivarium” for North Devon Museums
2006 Drawings for Radioplay, BAC, Edinburgh
2005 Bookwork for Bristol Art Library
2003 Set Design for “Water Babies”
2002 Paintings for “Allegory of Love”
1998 Banner for Appledore Shipbuilders Trade Union
1988 Exterior Banners for

Projects

In 2007, I initiated, devised and managed The Samuel Taylor Coleridge festival at the Brewhouse. I raised £18k in order to fund it. The festival included a music project based on the Aeolian Harp with students from Chilton Trinity Technical College and Lydiard St Lawrence primary with a live performance of original music and incorporating film and still imagery (recorded on ), a lecture and reading of Coleridge’s anti slavery sermon in the Unitarian Chapel where it was originally delivered, a geology project, a performance of Christabel by Adults with Learning difficulties, 3 exhibitions (including a solo show of my own work), a series of guided walks, a film by Wolf and Water based on The Ancient Mariner and collaborative project with the Arnolfini.
In 2009 I initiated and devised the Vivarium project which focuses on the work of George Eliot and Victorian Marine biology. A publication was produced, a film night organised, I gave talks and workshops and put an exhibition together which included my own work, the W.S. Hore collection of pressed seaweed, drawings by Philip Gosse and an aquarium of local marine life.

Employment

2010

Associate artist for Plymouth Museum (employed by the Plymouth Visual Art Consortium)

Member of the South West Turning Point Group: a consultative body set up by Arts Council England to advise on Visual Arts strategy across the South West and nationally.

2003 – 2010
Visual Arts Officer, Arts Council South West (0.6)
officer for individual artist’s development, workspace development, visual arts in Bristol and Gloucestershire and for organisations and schemes including: ALIAS (a regional scheme developing artist’s groups with an annual budget of £70k), South West Open Studios, Spike Island (including leading on the successful £2.25 million capital development project), Stroud Valley’s Artspace (including leading on the successful £1.35 million capital development project capital development), Gloucestershire Cathedral residency, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust.

2000 – 2003
Visual Arts Officer, South West Arts (0.6)
officer for visual arts development in Somerset and Gloucestershire, capital development of Spike Island, Stroud Valley’s Artspace, The Brewery, Gloucester Docks and visual arts awards.

1998 – present
Associate artist with Wolf and Water, an arts company that uses theatre and the arts creatively and therapeutically within the mental health, criminal justice, conflict resolution, social, youth and education services. Work includes residential projects with Treliske, Derriford and Wonford Hospital Child Oncology Departments, film and performance with adults with learning disabilities. For further details see (www.wolfandwater.org)

1997 – 2000
Writer for “Artists and Illustrators” magazine – articles included interviews with established artists (Euan Uglow, Gillian Ayres etc), historical essays (inc. William Blake), features on my own practice, reviews and technical advice.
(Other recent publications include articles for Devon Life and Western Morning News)

1994 – 2000
Visual Arts Officer. (0.6) The Beaford Centre: a rural arts centre which at the time incorporated the in Torrington. Duties included the day to day running of two galleries and initiating/managing and raising funds for community and education projects.

1992 – 1994
Small School Hartland teaching GCSE art and undertaking project work. (0.2)

1980 – 1994
Labouring – farming, gardening and building work in rural North Devon.