Education
2014-2020 AHRC Practice based PhD, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University
1999-2001 MA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
1993-1995 MA History of Art, Goldsmith’s College, University of London
1987-1989 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
1985-1987 Dip (HE) Art & Design in a Social Context, Dartington College of Arts
1984-1985 Foundation in Art & Design, Lancashire Polytechnic
Awards
2016 Tracing Paper 2016, Mentoring and professional development, Paper Gallery, Manchester
2015 Student Development Fund (NWCDTP), Research study trips;
Art of Islamic Pattern, Turkey (2015), Celtic Geometry and Medieval Illumination, Princes School of Traditional Arts (2016)
2014 North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP) Practice based PhD Studentship (AHRC) 2014-2020
2014 ACE Funding, Small Grants to the Arts, Curation of Slippage: The Unstable Nature of Difference, Contemporary Art Space, Chester
2010 Shortlisted, The Jerwood Drawing Prize
2009 Prizewinner, Grosvenor & Wrexham Open
2005 Shortlisted, Comme Ca Art Prize North
2004 Shortlisted, Pizza Express Prospects
Prizewinner, Michael Gourley Award, MAFA Open
2003 Nominated, Beck’s Futures
2002 Finalist, Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Exhibitions
2016 [Tracing Paper 2016, Paper Gallery, Manchester]
Compression Culture, Vertical Gallery, Manchester School of Art
2015 Dot to Dot, drawing performance, Post-graduate conference, Keele University
Carbon Meets Silicon, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Glyndwr University
Wanderlust: To Pernik With Love, Water Tower Art Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
Slippage: The Unstable Nature of Difference, Contemporary Art Space Chester
2014 (detail), (touring exhibition);
H-Project Space, Bangkok (June - July)
Transition Gallery, London (Sept - Oct)
The Usher Gallery, Lincoln (Dec - April 2015)
Beauty is the First Test (touring exhibition) -
The National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland (May - July)
Platform Gallery, Clitheroe ( Jan - April)
The Drawing Show, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2013 The Infinity Show, NN Northampton
Beauty is the First Test (touring exhibition);
R-Space, The Linen Rooms, Lisburn, Northern Ireland (Feb-March)
The National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, Linc. (April - June)
Bliston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton, West Midlands (Sept - Nov)
Above and Below, Yarangall Farm, Cheshire
2012 Beauty is the First Test, The Pumphouse Gallery, London
A Century Later, Contemporary Works from the Gallery Collection, Touchstones
Fixation, Wolstenholme Creative Space, Liverpool
2011 The Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Alicia David Contemporary Art
In the Woods Today, Yarangall Farm, Cheshire
Suite Studios, Cornerhouse Projects, Manchester
2010 The Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, Jerwood Space, London (touring exhibition)
Above The Serious, Stoke Newington Library, London
Wish You Were Here; an Exploration into Drawing & Journeys, Bath Spa Gallery
Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales
The Drawing Shed, Project Space, Leeds (PSL)
AXIS curated show, The Arts Council Office, Great Peter’s Street, London
The Affordable Art Fair, London & New York, Alicia David Contemporary Art
At Play II, South Hill Park, Bracknell
The Conversation, Newtown Church, Chester
4 Degrees, Cube Gallery, Manchester
All The Small Things, Grosvenor Museum, Chester (solo show)
Making Marks, Touchstones, Rochdale Art Gallery, Greater Manchester
2009 Superabundant: Pattern in Contemporary Art, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Pattern Recognition, City Gallery Leicester
FRINGEMK, Catalogue Finalist, Milton Keynes
Grosvenor Open (prize-winner), Grosvenor Museum & Art Gallery, Chester
Wrexham Open (prize-winner), Oriel Wrecsam, Wales
Encounter, Novas, Liverpool
A42D, Group drawing show, Bloc Space, Sheffield
Sale, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2008 Present, HIVE Gallery, Barnsley
The Baltic Frame, Arena Gallery, Liverpool Biennial
Hypotrochoids, HIVE Gallery, Barnsley (solo show)
Time and Time Again, Touchstones, Rochdale Art Gallery, Greater Manchester (solo show)
Reach, Chapman Gallery, University of Salford (solo show)
2007 Negotiated Positions, University College Chester (as part of the RepeatRepeat conference)
Going Straight, Otter Gallery, Chichester (solo show)
2006 Wall to Wall, VINEspace, Bethnal Green, London (The Goodham Gallery)
Multiples, LOT, Bristol Tutti Frutti, BLOCspace, Sheffield (solo show)
2005 Turning Circle, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge (solo show curated by Kirsten Lavers)Snowcase #5, Fold Gallery, Cumbria
Art in a Britbox, Assign, Sunderland
Focal Solo, Ruthin Festival of Contemporary Art and Light , Wales
2004 Remote Control, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Salford (Prize winner)
Pizza Express Prospects, Tea Building, London
2003 We Go Round & Round In The Night & Are Consumed By Fire, Terminal Warehouse
New York & Liverpool Biennial (2004) Curated by Neil Mulholland
Thermo 03, The Lowry, Salford
Beyond the Pale, Gallery 103, NEWI, Wrexham
2002 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Static, Liverpool and The Barbican, London
Art Take Away, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Mostyn 12, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
Something Light, Gallery 103, NEWI, Wrexham
2000-01 All Colours Will Agree in the Dark, CornerHouse, Manchester
Interim, Ove Arup Gallery, Manchester
Blind Date, Righton Gallery, Manchester & Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
1995-99 Mostyn 10, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
Post Early, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Contemporary Art Society Market, 1994 & 1995, Royal Festival Hall, London
Royal Over-Seas League Open, London
Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Arts Centre
Kettles Yard Open Exhibition, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge
Interior Spaces, McMillan Gallery, Cambridge, (solo show)
In Patagonia, Burgh House, London, (solo show)
1990–94 Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk
Art For Sale II & IV, The Guardian, Whiteley’s, London
Beyond Landscape, Skelmersdale & Peterborough Arts Centre (solo show)
Art in Offices, Unicorn Consultancy, London
Drawings for All, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
A Sense of Place, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, (solo show)
The New Generation, Bonhams, London
New English Art Club, The Mall Galleries, London
Northern Graduates, New Academy Gallery, London
Articles and Press
Crafts Magazine, A place where making meets mathematics, Nov/Dec 2012,
Beauty is the First Test, Reviewed by Glenn Adamson.
BBC1 Show Me The Monet April 2012
The Independant, Superabundant, Charles Darwent, Sun 25 Jan 2009
a-n Magazine, front cover, May 2008
BBC2 James May: My Sister’s Top Toys, Dec 23 & 25, 2008
Time Out, Bethnal Green Boogie, Wed Sep 20 2006, Sarah Kent
The Guardian, Preview Guide, Saturday August 5, 2006, Robert Clark
Flux Magazine, Issue 39, Nov/Dec 2003, We Go Round & Round in the Night & are
Consumed by Fire, p52-53, Claire Lomax
Flux Magazine, Flux Space, Issue 43, 2004, 1 Bic Biro, Jane Chavez-Dawson
The Guardian, New Contemporaries, Thursday September 26, 2002, Alfred Hickling