'My creative output varies from the abstract to the naturalistic. I explore formal qualities and visual language as a means of expressing often complex ideas about the world we inhabit and the nature of human experience and relationships. Recent work concentrates on human form, expressed in a semi-abstract way by manipulating steel, stainless steel and bronze.

My figures are captured and constrained within sculptural forms that attempt to express both the elegance and an awkward discomfort of the human condition.

Work evolves by experimentation with materials and process which, I feel, leads to a greater honesty in the sculpture. I try to make sculptures that have a physical dynamic together with logic of form and an engagement with the subject matter.

My current body of work ‘REFUGEE’ builds on the processes and aesthetic of past work but is a direct personal response to various conflicts and humanitarian crisis worldwide. It's a critique of governments and regimes complicit in the injustices, oppression and cruelty inflicted on the underprivileged and dispossessed. '

EDUCATION

• 1984 - 1985 Rochdale College of Art, Foundation Certificate in Art & Design                                                                     

• 1985 - 1988 Wimbledon School of Art, BA Hons Degree in Fine Art – Sculpture                                                     

• 1995 - 1997 Keele University, MA Visual Art in Contemporary Culture (Theory)                                                      

• 2008 - 2009 Staffordshire University, PGCE Level 7 DTTLS
  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2022 ‘Legacy’, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester

• 2022 Showcase at Spring, Cheltenham

• 2021 ‘Equinox’, Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway

• 2021 ‘100 Things’, Katherine House Gallery, Marlborough

• 2020 ‘Form’, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester

• 2020 Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway

• 2019 Bircham Gallery, Norfolk

• 2019 London Art Fair, Islington

• 2019 Foss Fine Art, London

• 2018 Cameron Contemporary Art, Brighton and Hove

• 2008-09 Biscuit Factory Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

• 2008-09 The Art Lounge Gallery, Birmingham

• 2003-08 Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

• 2002 Bruton Street Gallery, London

• 2001-02 No9 The Gallery, Birmingham

• 2000 Coombes Contemporary, London

• 1998 Manchester Academy of Fine Arts

• 1998 Chancellors Gallery, Keele University

• 1994 Custard Factory, Birmingham

• 1991 Wedgwood Memorial College, Staffordshire - permanent collection

• 1986-88 Cannizaro Park, London
  

solo shows 

• 2001-02 Friary Gallery, Lichfield

• 1996 Big Peg Gallery, Birmingham

• 1996 Hanover Gallery, Liverpool

• 1994 Shelton Studio Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

• 1991 Ridware Art Centre, Staffordshire, open-air

• 1991 Carters Gallery, Cheshire
  

Public commissions

• 2017 ‘TimeLine’, ‘Peacock’ and ‘Digital World’ 3 large scale sculpture, GE Grid Solutions UK                                

• 2017 Stafford Borough Council & Beacon Business Park, Public Sculpture   

• 2015 ‘First Dance’ The Upper House Hotel, Barlaston, Staffs

• 2007 Hilllstone Primary, Birmingham, workshop & sculpture commission

• 2007 ‘Together We Can Fly’ Pendeford College, Wolverhampton, Workshops & sculpture commission

• 2005-06 Laser Process Ltd, 3 metre public sculpture 

• 2006 ‘The Glow Tree’ Oxford City Council, 6 metre community arts project & commission     

• 2005 ‘Wedding Party’ Birmingham City Council, New Central Registry Office

• 2005 ‘Falcon’ Pritchard Holdings, Cannock, 6 metre sculpture

• 2005 ‘Heritage’ Cannock Council, Sculpture Commemorating Mining Industry, Unveiled by Arts Minister Estelle Morris   

• 2003-04 Pritchard Holdings, Staffs Technology Park, two major public sculpture commissions

• 2003 ‘Violin’ Safeway’s supermarket, Greater Manchester, large scale public commission  

• 2002 ‘Walking Together’ Diocese of Lichfield, St Nicholas’s Church, large scale, site specific commission      

• 1998 ‘Mercury’ Goodyear UK Ltd, Wolverhampton, large public sculpture commission