Education

2005         MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art

1999          MA(Hons) Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art

 

Awards

2024 Judith E Wilson Practice-Led Research Grant Award (jointly with Dr. Ruth Abbott)

2017          Winner of Sir John Hurt Art Prize

2005         Henry Tonks Prize for drawing, Slade School of Fine Art

 

Exhibitions / Commissions

2023 Paper and Poetry symposium, The Paper Foundation, Burneside

2021 Exhibition with Desmond Brett and Robert Filby at Primeyarc, Great Yarmouth

2018 - 19  Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London then touring UK

2017         Sir John Hurt Art Prize, Holt and The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

2016         Commissioned steel gates for redevelopment by MAX Architects, 25 Wilton Road, London

2015         Toulouse-Lautrec Party, Bruce McLean retrospective at Firstsite, Colchester

2014         Commissioned to illustrate The Myth of Brilliant Summers by Austin Collings

2010         FringeMK Painting Prize, finalist

2008        Solo exhibition at Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

2006        Residue, Firstsite, Colchester

2006        Objects for Future Shapes, Chateau de Sacy, France (solo)

2006        Flat Things, Holt Gallery, Sherborne (solo)

 

Residencies

2023 Thomas Bernhard Haus, Ottnang, Austria

2006         Slade School / West Dean Residency, West Dean College, Chichester

2006         Franco-British Artist Residency, Chateau de Sacy, France

2000         Up in the Air, Kenley Close, Liverpool