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Further Education and Qualifications
Birmingham
Institute of Art & Design, f
University of Central England, Birmingham.
B.A. Honours Fine Art
Sept. 2001 June 2002
Warwickshire School of Art College, Leamington Spa,
Warwickshire. CV32 5JE
Diploma of Higher Education, Fine Art
Sept. 1999 June 2001
Warwickshire School of Art College,
Leamington
Spa, Warwickshire. CV32 5JE
Access to Fine Art
Sept. 1997 June 1999
Certificate of Higher Education, Fine Art
September 1997 June 1999
Recent Exhibitions
5-20 July 2008
LSA / AMA Summer Show
5-24 July 2008
Statement
My sculptural
work mainly concerns growth and form repetition and environmental issues
especially man-versus nature and the nature of man. Often unconventional,
wherever possible, the use of recycled material is preferred. I am also
interested in natural patterns and the surety that all matter eventually returns
to the turning circle of nature.
I have always been a maker and it was once said of me that I
like to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Therefore when a choice
presented itself as to whether I should major in painting, printing or
sculpture, I was drawn to the latter though sometimes the other disciplines
overlap.
Environmental issues are, in my opinion, more important than
any other problem as nature is more powerful than man. A balance has to be
maintained to support all life as we know it. Life depends on nature yet nature
is life, giving and also taking.
Artists I am interested in and have been influenced by are
Richard Deakin, Robert Morris. Mario Merz, Donald Judd, Richard Long, Tony Cragg,
to name but a very few.
I asked a tutor once what he did with most of his finished
work and he said most were in his garden rotting away. I like this idea as
everything that is never disappears but eventually returns to nature.
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Exhibitions since 2007
July 2008 LSA Summer
Exhibition, Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa
Painting on canvas (acrylic) part collaged, wood
construction, painting (acrylic) on canvas with transparent print and collaged
July 2008 Warwickshire
Arts Week, Golf Lane Allotment "Plot on the EdGe" -
Installation
July 2008 Camouflage Open
Exhibition, Caw Centre, Leamington Spa
Digital print.
February 2008 Charity
Exhibition, Leamington Town Hall
2 paintings, 1 print
October 2007 Midland Artists
Association Charity Art Fair at All Saints Church in aid of CORD and the Medical
Foundation for care of Victims of Torture -
Acrylic painting.
July 2007 LSA Open Summer
Exhibition, Warwickshire College, Leamington - School of Art Gallery
Three wood carvings.
April 2007 Woodex exhibition,
Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, Nr Leamington Spa -
Wood carving Commended.
January 2007 Sense
Scotland 7th Helen Keller International Award at the University
Strathclyde -
Sculpture
Community work
Sept 2003 Artsfest, Birmingham
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Manipulation of mammoth puppets
July 2003
Edgewick Park School, Foleshill, Coventry
Working with a class of making
sculptures of wood, straws, polystyrene, twigs and foil each child producing a
silver bird in a bird cage.
My work mainly concerns growth
and form, environmental issues especially man-versus nature and the nature of
man. Often unconventional, wherever possible, the use of recycled material
preferred . I am also interested in natural patterns and the surety that all
matter eventually returns to the turning circle of nature.
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