Selected solo
exhibitions/ collaborations:
2008
‘The Wearable Vanitas and other work’: Platform Gallery, Mistley
‘Expérience 1: un Squelette Humain’: Benham Gallery,
Colchester.
2007
‘Day of the Triffids’: site-specific sculpture, with Natasha
Carsberg. Cunlhat, France.
'Enclosure': installation with Tim Skinner and Kim Barclay. Benham Gallery,
Colchester.
2006
‘Everything and More’: installation, Benham Gallery, Cuckoo
Farm Studios, Colchester.
‘Georgia’s Footsteps’: Hector Croot, Colchester.
2005
‘Everything and More’: site-specific installation, environmental
art, and other work created during residency at the Chateau de Sacy: Picardie,
France.
2002
'Luscious', Garden Cafe at the Minories, Colchester.
1999
'Objects Trouves en Boites', Les Livres Gallery, Colchester.
Selected group exhibitions:
2009
‘Long Nights’: William Angel Gallery, London.
2008
‘Secrets’: interactive group installation, The Foundry, London.
‘Shrines’: Surrounds sculpture trail, Cuckoo Farm Studios,
Colchester.
‘Wearable Expressions’: Palos Verdes Arts Centre, California.
‘Allotments’: Standing Room at Harrington Mills Studios, Nottingham.
2007
‘I came, I saw’: Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich.
2005
Cuckoo Farm Studios group show, Babylon Gallery, Ely.
Cuckoo Farm Studios group show, Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings.
2004
'Dust to Dust': University Gallery, Essex University.
2003
‘Challenge the Nail’: Salon des Arts, London.
2003
‘Mutiny at the Barge House': Lost Property Art live art event, Barge
House, Oxo Wharf, London.
2001
'Showing off: Essex artists': Cressing Temple barns.
2000
'150 Years of Public Libraries': Les Livres gallery, Colchester.
'Seeing the Words': group exhibit touring Essex libraries.
1998
'Studio in a Square': Minories gallery, Colchester.
Residencies:
2007
Chantiers des Arts, Cunlhat, France. Week-long group residency, collaboration
with Natasha Carsberg,
2005
‘Everything and More’ : Artist in Residence at the Chateau
De Sacy, Picardie, France. Month-long residency informing site-specific
installation, art in the environment, and other work.
1998
'Wavering': week-long group project , working with animator Peter Fluck,
composer Glyn Evans, and other artists, to create a multi-media interactive
art and sound installation. Chelmsford, Essex.
1997
'Ogni Dove': Artist in Residence at Damanhur. Two week residency culminating
in mural painting inspired by the history and iconography of the community.
Damanhur, Italy.
Selected public commissions:
2008
‘Monkwick Bunker project’: mural on WW2 bunker, informed by
workshops with children and feedback from residents on the estate, Colchester.
(Monkwick Residents Association.)
2007/8
‘Creative Conveniences’: public art collaboration: three artists
working together on three public toilets in key tourist locations in Colchester,
Dedham, and Mersea. The first toilet, in Lion Walk, Colchester is now
complete, for which I created a number of curiosity cabinets using objects
donated by the public, inspired by the Castle Museum collections and history
of the site. (Colchester Borough Council.)
2007
‘Rowhedge Heritage Mural’: celebrating village life and history
on the wall of the village hall. (Rowhedge Residents Association.)
2006
‘Salarybrook Subway project’: mural project designed to enhance
and encourage the use of an underpass running between Greenstead Estate
and Essex University. (Greenstead Youth Centre, Essex University.)
‘Widdecombe House’: Garden enhancement project in collaboration
with a garden designer, at a sheltered housing establishment for adults
with learning difficulties, Harold Wood, London. (East Potential.)
2005
‘Riverside Living Project’: interpretation panel for the riverbank
in Halstead, created in collaboration with sculptor Gary Thrussell. Informed
by workshops with Colchester and Braintree Gateway, and in consultation
with Colchester and Braintree Museums services, River Colne conservation
group, Mencap, and PORTAL Essex.
‘Occasio House stairwell’: a mixed-media panel designed and
created with the young people resident at an East Potential residential
facility in Harlow. (East Potential)
2004
‘For Mark’: commemorative wall-mounted box assemblage commissioned
by Colchester Arts Centre.
2003
‘Marks Hall Estate’: two week residency working with the community,
designing and creating artwork for a site on an estate in Rochford. (Footprints
community group, Rochford Borough Council.)
2002
‘Rural Mural’: workshops at Writtle College with four Chelmsford
Schools, leading to design for a mural in an underpass in Central Park,
Chelmsford. (Writtle College and Chelmsford Arts Development.)
Awards and prizes:
2008 “Best in show Accessory” for ‘Vanitas 4:Night Creatures’,
Wearable Expressions, Palos Verdes Arts Centre, CA
2008 “Art in the Built Environment”: Colchester2020 and RIBA
Architectural award for ‘Creative Conveniences’ Lion Walk
toilets.
Upcoming exhibitions and projects:
“The Double-Skinned Shed”: residency/installation/exhibition,
Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios. Colchester, May 2009
“Rainforest:Essex” work inspired by residency at Writtle College,
Chelmsford. Ongoing.