I am a Sheffield-based artist with over 30 years of professional practice.
My solo exhibitions include shows at the Mappin Art Gallery (Sheffield), MAC (Birmingham), the Wallner Gallery at Lakeside Arts (Nottingham), among others. I have also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre (Scunthorpe), and Bloc Projects (Sheffield).
I have completed public commissions for a range of clients, including Bowmer & Kirkland, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield NHS, Barnsley Primary Care Trust, Voluntary Action Rotherham, and Sheffield Museums. I specialise in designing vinyl artworks for application to glazed architectural surfaces.
My education includes a Foundation course at Loughborough College of Art & Design, a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Brighton University, and an MSc in Computing from Sheffield Hallam University.
One person exhibitions
- 2017 ’The plant room’, Yorkshire Artspace PW Gallery, Sheffield.
- 2007 ‘Interior – possibility and mystery’, Pickford’s House Museum, Derby.
- – ‘There’s no such thing as flat’, Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield.
- 2005 ‘Inside’, Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham.
- – ‘Recording Space’, mac, Birmingham.
- 1992 Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.
- 1988 Huddersfield Art Gallery.
Selected group exhibitions
- 2026 The First Round Proper, The First Half, BLOC Projects, Sheffield.
- 2025 ‘The Rule of Three, Two’, Prosaic Projects Gallery, Sheffield.
- – ‘Jammyboree’ ,BLOC Projects, Sheffield.
- – ‘A bell is a cup until it is struck’, BLOC Projects, Sheffield.
- 2024 RA Summer Exhibition.
- 2023 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.
- – Fronteer Open, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield.
- 2022 Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.
- 2020-21 ‘Small Print International 6’, Mini Print Exhibition, Leicester Print Workshop.
- 2021 ‘ReCultivate’, Cultivate, online www.organthing.com.
- – ‘The Cooper Prize 2021’, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley.
- – ‘Still’, Cultivate, online www.organthing.com.
- 2019 ‘LUNA’, Sydney and Matilda Gallery, Sheffield.
- 2018 ‘What are we going to do with all this stuff’, pop up exhibition, Dina, Sheffield.
- 2018 ‘Who we are who we aren’t’, Seventeen Gallery, London.
- 2018 Kallida music and art festival, Herefordshire.
- 2015 ‘Chinadoxia’, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield.
- 2011 ‘Assembly #11, Last Requests’, Bloc Studio, Sheffield.
- 2009 RA Summer Exhibition.
- 2008 RA Summer Exhibition.
- 2007 Bloc Assembly#5, Bloc Studio, Sheffield.
- – ‘Here and now’, Yorkshire Art Space, reception gallery, Sheffield.
- 2006 ‘Genius Loci’ 8th International Photography Festival, Greece.
- 2005 ‘This is Drawing’, Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
- 2002 ‘Off the Wall’, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff.
- – ‘Sense Place’, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe.
- 1998 ‘Under Construction’, The Gallery of the Future, Loughborough University.
- 1996 ‘Quarterlight’, projection, The Workstation, Sheffield.
- 1995-97 ‘ArCade’, University of Brighton touring exhibition:
- – ‘New Art in Sheffield’, Mappin Art Gallery.
- 1984 ‘Mappin Open’, Mappin Art Gallery.
- – ‘South Yorkshire Open’, Cooper Gallery Barnsley.
Awards
- 2021 DYCP award Arts Council England
- 2005 ‘R&D’ award Arts Council England (Yorkshire).
- 2004 ‘R&D’ award Arts Council England (Yorkshire).
- 2002 ‘R&D’ award Arts Council England (Yorkshire).
- ‘Making & Showing’ award Arts Council England (Yorkshire).
Public commissions and residencies
- 2022-24 Street shutters, Hillsborough – Firth Park- Abbeydale Road, Sheffield.
- 2022 ‘Reflected light’, Henry Street, Unbinite, Sheffield.
- 2021 Who Are We? Navigating Race, Class and the City, Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London, curated by Bollo Brook Youth Group.
- 2020 Uniqlo Tate Lates at Tate Modern, ‘Who we are who we aren’t’ curated by Bollo Brook Youth Group
- 2019 ‘Block scapes’, West Street , Bowmer and Kirkland, Sheffield.
- 2017 ‘Skyline’, Northern General Hospital A&E, Sheffield. (NHS Sheffield).
- 2015 ‘Curves and Lines’, Devonshire Point, MAF Properties, Sheffield.
- – ‘Castlegate’, YA Microgrant, Yorkshire Artspace,Sheffield.
- 2014 ‘Collabor8’, Get Involved 17, Nottingham Contemporary.
- 2013 ‘Ages of life’, Norfolk Park Medical Centre, (NHS Sheffield).
- – ‘Alphabet’, Darnall Primary Care Centre, (NHS Sheffield).
- – ‘Life Cycle’, Flower Medical Centre, (NHS Sheffield).
- – Sculptural insert designs for Chaucer District, Parson Cross (Sheffield City Council).
- 2012 Banner designs for Chaucer District, Parson Cross (Sheffield City Council).
- 2011 ‘Home’, Parson Cross Learning Zone (Yorkshire ArtSpace), Sheffield.
- – ‘Bluebells, Great Houghton Medical Centre (Beam), Barnsley.
- 2010 ‘Power press’, Hawk Works, Sheffield (Symon Donovan Properties).
- 2009-10 ‘Shadow reflections’, Bollo Youth Centre, South Acton, London.
- – ‘Sustain’, ’Recycle’, ’Clean Water’, Lockerbrook Centre, (Peak District National Park).
- – ‘Pride’ and ‘Respect’, Whitfield Ball Court, Glossop (High Peak Borough Council).
- 2008-9 ‘Journeys’, The Spectrum, Voluntary Action Rotherham, Rotherham.
- 2008 ‘Dappled Light’, Oakwell Centre, Kendray Hospital, Barnsley (PCT).
- 2005-6 Artworks for Westfield PFI school, commissioned by (Kier Build)
- – ‘Aggregation’ vinyl on glass for Weston Park Museum, Sheffield (SGMT).
- 2004 Documentary photographic residency, Isis Arts.
- 2003 ‘Collected Works’, light boxes, Bradford and Northern Housing Association.
- 2002 ‘Weather Hide’, commission, Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire.
- – A Month in the Life’, digital photography commission, Burton Street Project, Sheffield.
- – Designs for steel inserts for railings, Manor Fields, Sheffield.
- 2001 ‘A Sense of Place’, YOTA residency, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe.
- – ‘Manifestations’, etch vinyl on glass, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe.
- – ‘Rest a While’, public seating, Centre in the Park, Norfolk Heritage Park.
- 2000 Millennium Flags commission, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.
- – Interpretation panels for Swadlincote Forest Park, South Derbyshire.
- 1998 ‘Peg1’, commission for vinyl on glass, Sheffield Transport Interchange.