Education
1989 - BA, (fine art) MMU, Manchester
1994 - MA, (fine art) University of Alberta, Canada
Artist statement
My finished work and ongoing working practice is a continuous investigation and coalition within the areas of public art, painting and sculpture. Focused and conforming to a traditional and intrinsic format, I combine and utilise all available mediums. My research and interests extend into all visual art forms, the introduction of this and other individual reference material, substantiates an instinctive and progressive visual content. Resolute research and investigation associated to the subjects of repetition, public art as a studio practice, dance, unconscious working methods and ambiguous past events are permanent and transient components, central towards finished and future projects. Combined within the absorption and exploits of such activities is a continued response and a full-time successive program of experimentation, fundamental towards any assurance of progression. Sequential areas of inquiry, instinctive towards an influence and a remit for forthcoming projects, are the progression of consolidating restrictions, encouraging autonomy, colour and scale development. The unconscious act predominates, a blitz of objectives and actions are induced into the completed object, or the pursuance of chance and an uncomplex vision is established provoking a temporary conclusion, either way the extremities agitate and congeal forming a reference point for the viewer.
Teaching
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
1995 - The Robert Gordon University,
Faculty of Design and Technology:
(Grays School of Art) Garthdee Road
Aberdeen AB10 7QD
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
1998 - Kent Institute, Canterbury School of Art
New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3AN
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
2000 - Quay Art, 43, High Street,
Kingston upon Hull, HU1 1PT
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
2000 - The University of New South Wales
SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
2001 - Northeast Normal University
College of Fine Arts
Changchun, Jilin Province
130024 China
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
2004 - Xiamen University
School of art, 11F,Jiageng Building
No.422, South-Siming Road, Fujian
China 361005
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
2004 - Guangxi Art College
No 7 Jiaoyu Road, Nanning, Guangxi
530022 P R China
Visiting Lecturer Sculpture
2004 - Guangzhou Academy of fine arts
Sculpture Department, 257 East Changgang Road
Guangzhou, China 510261