Artist Biography

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 Holiday, 1955 (detail)Platform 12 Mural  

 

 

Education

 

2005 ctlad, Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Art & Design, University of the Arts, London

 

1988 M.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College

 

1984 Byam Shaw  Diploma, London Diploma in Art & Design (Distinction)

 

1981 Foundation, John Cass School of Art

 

 

Residencies

 

2011 Ansoar Fornas, Galicia

 

1999 Cardinal Pole School, Picasso, Guernica & the Stephen Lawrence Case

 

1997 Bethnal Green College of Technology, Grafton Road Primary School, Holloway, Wall Mosaics 

 

1989 Moscow Artists Union, House of Creativity, Chelyuskinskaya, Russia

 

 

Collections

 

Victoria & Albert Museum

 

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham

 

Warner Brothers

 

Sunshine International Art Museum, Songzhuang, Beijing, China

 

KUNST-ARCHIV Peter Kerschgens, Cologne, Germany

 

Gallery Ansoar Fornas, Galicia, Spain

 

Private collections in the UK, USA, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand

 

 

Awards

 

1989 Kingsgate Trust Award

 

1988 British Council and foreign office travel award

 

1982 Peta Katzenellenbogen Prize

 

 

Teaching

 

 2007 - 13 Course Director HNC Fine Art, Kensington & Chelsea College 

 

 1988 - 2007 WAES, CSM, Byam Shaw, UEL, KIAD, Chelsea, V&A, Barbican, PM Gallery,

 

Camden Arts Centre, Acava, National Artists Assoc., Landscape & Art Network,

 

 Bart’s hospital, various schools and colleges

 

 

Commissions and Public Art

 

2000 Platform 12 Mural, Kings Cross (100ft. x 4 ft digital print)

 

1998 The Harley Show, (wall painting), Barbican Art Gallery 

 

1997 Portraits -Sammy Cahn, Vivian Ellis, David Heneker, Chappell Music/Warner Brothers 

 

 Holloway Nursery, murals  

                      

1996 Wall Paintings for Diaghelev/Ballet Russe exhibition, Barbican Art Gallery

 

1995 Woods Alley Mosaic, Whitechapel

 

1994 Cable Street Mural, London E1. Restoration

 

1993 King Street Mural, Ashcroft Square Estate, Hammersmith     

               

1992 Golbourne Youth Development Unit, N. Kensington, Murals;

 

 Wedgewood School, Hammersmith, ‘Self-shadow sun dial’ with Tam Giles

 

 1991 Shaftesbury Mosaic, Hammersmith 

 

 Horder Road Nursery School, Fulham 

 

 1989 Shepherds Bush Green Mosaic with G Calvert

 

 

 Exhibition Design and Installation

 

 1985- 2000      World Press Photo (Athens, Museum of Film and photography, Bradford, Festival Hall, London);

 

 Barbican Art Gallery, Riverside Artists Group, Women Artists Slide Library, Public Art Forum, Watermans Arts Centre,

 

 Saatchi Gallery, A.T.Kearney Ltd, Cambridge Darkroom, WAES, Pitshanger  Manor, various galleries and individuals

 

 

Community Arts

 

1975 -81 Yaa Asantewa Arts Centre (formerly The Factory), W9

 

Walworth & Aylesbury Community Arts Trust, SE17 

 

Paddington Printshop (now London Print Workshop), W9

 

1969-73 Trombone Noir: happenings, film, performance. Sheffield, Brussels

 

Other

 

2005 Selector: Hugh Casson Drawing Prize, Royal Academy Summer Show

 

2001-2005 Trustee, Kingsgate Studios

 

1984 Tony Bevan, catalogue entry, Sydney Biennale