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STUDIO
Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road,
Canton, Cardiff.
EDUCATION
1985 - 87, Cardiff College of Art,
M.A. Fine Art.
1980 - 83, Newport College of Art,
B.A. Hons. Fine Art, First Class.
1979 - 80, Derby Lonsdale College,
Foundation Studies.
ONE MAN SHOWS
Dec. 2005, ‘Another Light’, Glynn Vivian Museum and
Art Gallery, Swansea.
March 2003, ‘Light Works’, Howard Gardens Gallery,
U.W.I.C., Cardiff.
May 1998, ‘Groundless’, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Sept. 1993, ‘Ars Domestica’, Swansea Arts Workshop
Gallery.
July 1989, ‘A Material Fantasy’, Chapter Arts Centre,
Cardiff.
Oct. 1984, Second Space, Chapter Arts Centre,
Cardiff.
COMMISSIONS
July 2007, Beacon, interactive sound / light installation
for Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk. In collaboration with
Composer John Hardy, through Commissions East as
part of Contemporary Arts Norwich
Feb. 1999, Aurora, interactive sound / light installation
for Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff.
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2007 Addiction, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff.
2006 Breathing Ground, Coed Hills, St Hilary.
2000 Hyperart, Group show, G39 Cardiff.
2000 Unrealised Ideas, Chapter Arts Centre
1999 Artworks Wales, Food
1997 Coed Hills, St Hilary, Vale of Glamorgan.
1995, Word overall, Swansea Arts Workshop Gallery.
1994 Interview, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
1994 Site-ations, International site specific exhibition,
Artists Project, Cardiff.
AWARDS
2006 Artworks Wales ‘Artist at Work Grant’ for
collaborative project with Loyn & Co. Architects.
2005 Arts Council of Wales ‘Creative Wales’ award to
pursue ’Looking for Darkness’ project.
1986 Welsh Arts Council studio grant.
1983-84, Post Graduate Studio Holder, Chapter Arts
Centre, Cardiff.
WORKSHOPS
Sept. 2007, public workshops for Beacon Project,
Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk.
June 2000 Architecture Week workshops for
Q Arts, Derby
March 1999, sound to light workshops for Aurora
commission, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff
SALARIED EMPLOYMENT
Jan 2004 to April 2005, part time Project Manager
Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales, responsible for
advising public bodies on art in the public realm.
Jan. 1991 to Aug 2002, Deputy Director (part time) of
Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales (national organisation
for public art in Wales) responsible for developing a
national programme of public art projects and
temporary exhibitions.
FREE-LANCE WORK
2004 to 2008, visiting lecturer in Fine Art, University of
Wales Newport
Aug 2002 to date, self employed artist and arts
consultant, working on public art strategies, and arts
development projects.
Feb 1997 appointed as artist on the design team with
John Miller and Partners, architects, for new art centre
in Runcorn, Cheshire.
Oct. 1989-Jan - '91, Public art consultant to the Welsh
Arts Council.
1987-89, Researcher & project worker for the Welsh
Sculpture Trust.
1988, Established West Wharf Studios, docklands,
Cardiff.
PUBLICATIONS
Another Light, catalogue. Pub. 2005 Glynn Vivian
Museum Swansea. ISBN 0-903189-72-0
Imaging Wales, Hugh Adams. Pub. 2003 Wales Arts
International, Seren. ISBN 1-85411-349-6
Light Works, Catalogue. Pub. 2003 Howard Gardens
Gallery, essay by Karen MacKinnon
ISBN 0-9541611-2-2
Groundless, Catalogue. Pub. 1998 Chapter, essay by
Karen MacKinnon. ISBN 1-900029-01-4
ARTICLES
Groundbreaking Poets and Evangelists, The Artist
and the Changing Landscape, Cywaith Cymru. 2005
Chalk and Cheese, Skip Magazine 1998
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Hampshire Sculpture
Trust Newsletter, 1998
MUSIC
2000 to date, pianist with Bill Fletcher’s
Co-operative, Quintet featuring music from Charles
Mingus, Abdullah Ibrahim and Astor Piazola.