In addition to teaching on Fine Art BA and MA programmes I contribute to the supervision, examination, review and exhibition of Professional Doctorate in Fine Art students. Additionally I manage the AVA Gallery and contribute to the management and curation of internal and external events such as the annual Degree Shows, Free Range, and other student and professional exhibitions.

Previous roles include Acting Dean of the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, between Sepember 2008 and August 2011 and Subject Director for Fine Art at UEL between from 2003-2008, 2011-12, and aditionally Subject Director for Digital Arts and Visual Communication 2006-2008.

I trained as a sculptor and printmaker, and have had numerous exhibitionsand commissions, and my work has been purchased for collections such as The Arts Council Collection, West Midlands Arts, ILEA, Tower Hamlets, and British Telecom.

In addition to teaching on Fine Art BA and MA programmes I contribute to the supervision, examination, review and exhibition of Professional Doctorate in Fine Art students. Additionally I manage the AVA Gallery and contribute to the management and curation of internal and external events such as the annual Degree Shows, Free Range, and other student and professional exhibitions.

I am involved in contemporary art practice, working with sculpture and printmaking, utilising a combination of digital and traditional materials and processes. Sketchbook drawings are transcribed with a mouse or tablet, and areprinted either digitlly or screenprinted onto strongly scultural materials eg stone, silk organza.

• Professional Doctorate in Fine Art
• MA Fine Art
• BA Fine Art

With colleagues I am establishing ‘UEL Drawing Research’, a research cluster examining through practice the role  of drawing within contemporary Art and Design practice. An online archive is in formation showing interviews with artists discussing the role of drawing in their practice. The founder members of UEL Drawing Research exhibited together in ‘Rhizomatic’ at the Departure Gallery Southall London October 2010.

Additionally as an individual I curated and exhibited in ‘MythicalLyrical’ the Sueli Turner Gallery London December 2009 and exhibited in  ‘Small space the same truths?’ Kusch & Co London June 2011.

This research aligns to Creative, Digital and Information Technology.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2005   ‘Bronze and Neon’ Hackney Forge, London
• 2003   ‘Ancient & Modern’ Malvern Theatres
• 1996   ‘Cuckoo-Two’ University of Guildhall, London
• 1995   ‘Cuckoo’ Malvern Arts Workshop
• 1993  ‘Before the Mediterranean’ University of Guildhall, London
• 1993   Greengate Gallery, University of East London
• 1986   ‘Singing Heads’ Worcester Cathedral
• 1985   Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
• 1982   ‘Poets and Dad’s’ Forest Gate Gallery, London
• 1977  Oriel Gallery, Cardiff

Site Specific Installation

• 2006    ‘Ambassadors’ Temporary installation Business School UEL
• 2001    ‘Slow Kiss’  Permanent Installation Trau Mer Brittany
• 2001    ‘Brain’  Bronze. Temporary installation Ponte San Angelo, Rome.      
• 2000    ‘Green Stick’  Bronze. Permanent Installation the Portland Cliff Path, Dorset, with support from The Portland Sculpture Trust.   
• 2000    ‘Small Colossus, Manhattan’  Bronze. Temporary installation on the Staten Island Ferry, NYC.                           

Selected Mixed Exhibitions

• 2010 'AffordableEast', Sueli Turner Gallery, London
• 2009-10 'Mythical Lyrical', Sueli Turner Gallery, London (Curator and Exhibitor)
• 2008 'The Great Purpose', Arts Pavilion, Mile End Park
• 2006    ‘Camera Constructs’ AVA Gallery UEL
• 2005/6 ‘Compilation’ touring show AVA Gallery London and Rheingold Gallery Frankfurt
• 2005    ‘Multo in Parvum II’ Hackney Forge London
• 2004    ‘Multo in Parvum’ Hackney Forge
• 2003    ‘A Response to Conflict’ University of East London
• 2000    University of East London
• 1998    Artefact Gallery, Malvern
• 1996    The University of East London
• 1995    The Stansell Gallery, Taunton
• 1991     Kyre Park, Worcestershire
• 1990     ‘A portrait of the Artist’, London College of Furniture - Malvern Arts Workshop
• 1989  ’Sculpture Open’, Minories Gallery, Colchester
• 1988    London College of Furniture
• 1987    Vortex Gallery, London -‘On The Town’ Coventry City Centre and the Lanchester Gallery
• 1986    National Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent
• 1985    ’Anniversary Show’, Vortex Gallery, London
• 1984    ’Attitudes ‘84’, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Vortex Gallery, London
• 1983    Worcester City Gallery, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Midland View, Touring
• 1982    Waterloo Gallery, London, L.Y.C. Gallery, Cumbria
• 1981    Chelsea School of Art, Greengate Gallery, North East London Polytechnic, Studio Show, Acre Lane, Brixton
• 1980    Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Whitechapel Open, Studio Show, Acre Lane, Brixton
• 1979    Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
• 1977    New Contemporaries, London

Commissions and Residencies

• 1991   Artist in Residence. The Wyche School, Malvern, producing a permanent Work. Funded by  West Midlands Arts
• 1990  Artist in Residence, Kyre Park Residential centre for Disabled People, funded by West Midlands Arts
• 1988    Artist in Residence, Chase High School, Malvern
• 1987    Two carvings for Coventry City Centre
• 1985  Sculpture and large Watercolours for Three Choirs Festival, Worcester Cathedral. Funded by West Midlands Arts            
• 1984   Two carvings for the National Garden Festival, Stoke on Trent. Carving permanently sited West Midlands Arts HQ Birmingham

Public Collections

• British Telecom
• Tower Hamlets
• West Midlands Arts
• ILEA
• Margam Sculpture Park

• Member of Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
• NAFAE National Association of Fine Art Education
• Member of UEL Drawing Research

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