Blown Away
Exhibitions
2007 - 'Soundbites & The Untuned Eye', The Haven Gallery, Boston.
- Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition
' 'Soundbites & The Untuned Eye' - Kinetica Museum, Spitalfields Market, London
National Touring Solo exhibition which opened at the JD Fergusson Gallery in Perth in 2005 as a result of the JD Fergusson Award, and Toured to The Shire hall Gallery, Stafford, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, York College Gallery and Forge Mill Museum, Redditch.
Joint Exhibition of new Sculpture with Marj Bond, Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames.
2004 - Oxo Tower, London. Mechanical Sound sculpture.
2003 - The Medici Gallery, London.
2001-03 - 'In - art - iculate', National Touring Exhibition.
' Coming to our Senses', National Touring Exhibition.
2001 - 'Up and Running', 20/21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe.
1999 - 'Tick Tock', Millenium Time Machines, Victoria Gallery, Bath.
- 'Wind Up', Scottish galleries, Edinburgh.
1998 - Gallerie Claude Andre, Belgium.
- 'Devious Devices' Touring kinetic exhibition based on objects chosen by Terry Gilliam.
- Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.
1997 - 'Moving Things', Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
1996 - 'Jitterbugs', Grosvenor Museum, Chester.
- Craft & Design Centre, Leeds.
1995 - Crafts Council at the V&A, London.
1993 - Scottish Society of Artists.
1992 - Economist Building, London.
Awards
- 2005 JD Fergusson Award
Commissions
2007 - Collaboration with 'Faulty Optic' on Orpheus in the Underworld in association with Opera North.
2006 - 'I know why the caged bird sings' mechanical sculpture- Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
- Sensory garden - Wilson Stuart School, Birmingham
- 2 week residency working with exclude 15 year olds in Hull, Building a 4.5 metre tall figure out of a car.
2005 - 'S6' kinetic sculpture- Wilson Stuart School, Birmingham
2004 - 'Rotative Triptych' - Cortonwood Junior School, Barnsley
- Collaborated with composer Graham Coatman to create two Sound Sculptures for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
- 'Ignite' Chain reaction fire sculpture with Matt Harling at artworks MK, Milton Keynes
- Expert, 'Scrapheap Challenge' Channel 4.
2003 - 'Ignite' with Matt Harling at artworks MK.
- 'Curve', Suspended Sculptures, Firth Park College, Sheffield.
2002 - Sculptural waymarkers, Watergate Forest Park, Gateshead.
- 'Boy in a Fish' kinetic sculpture, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
- 'Life on Earth' Interactive installation, New Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
2001 - 'Red Herring' mechanical copper fish, Woodend Museum, Scarborough.
- 'Farm gate' Priors Court School, Newbury.
2000 - 'Mechanical Gannet' Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick, Scotland.
1999 - 'Mechanical Dinosaur', Liverpool Museum.
Lecturing
Visiting lecturer
07- Nottingham University
06- Manchester Metropolitan University, York College
Education
- 1991 - BA hons Middlesex Polytechnic
Placements -
Bezalel College of Art, Jerusalem
Tim Hunkin, Suffolk
Jim Whiting, London