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Selected Exhibitions
One-person
2024 The China Spaniel, One-To-Ten Miniature Gallery, Hastings
2018 Art Week Exeter at venue E (Wilkinson Grant) Exeter, Devon
Art Week Exeter, at venue D (Inspired Dental Care) Exeter, Devon (two-person show)
2017 Café@36, Art Week Exeter
Sept for September, Boatyard Café and Bakery, Exeter
2016 Displace Meant Activity, Gallery 333 Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, Devon
2015 Pop-Up Gallery, Exeter, Devon
A Different Kind of Bark, West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter, Devon (two-person show)
2006 High Steel Blues, IAIS, University of Exeter, Devon
2005 Summer Collection, Phoenix Art Centre, Exeter, Devon
2004 Constructions in Colour, Atelier Gallery, University of Exeter, Devon
2000 The Spider’s Palace, Art Haven, Exeter, Devon
1999 Exeter Visual Arts Weekend, Exeter, Devon
1997 Exeter Visual Arts Weekend, Exeter, Devon
Teignmouth Festival Exhibition, Teignmouth, Devon
1996 Honiton Festival Exhibition, Honiton, Devon
1995 Seeds of Celebration, International Cultural Center for Youth, Jerusalem, Israel
Occupied Territory, Exeter & Devon Arts Centre, Exeter, Devon
1994 Painted Constructions, University Library, Exeter, Devon
1993 Coombe St Galleries, Exeter, Devon
Artward Bound, Colyton Grammar School, Axminster, Devon
1992 Honiton Festival Exhibition, Honiton Library, Devon
Colours, Constructions, Connections, Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset
1990 In 3 Dimensions, Exeter Festival Exhibition, Exeter & Devon Arts Centre, Exeter, Devon
Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton, Somerset
1989 The Plough, Torrington, Devon
1987 Kirtle, Exeter, Devon
Herbies, Exeter, Devon
1986 Cross Community Centre, Pontardawe, Swansea
Basement Gallery, University of Exeter, Devon
1985 Rolle College Gallery, Exmouth, Devon
1984 Exeter & Devon Arts Centre, Exeter, Devon
1983 MFA Show, University Center and Wagner Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois
Nornberg Gallery of Contemporary Art, St Louis, Missouri
1982 Renner Gallery, Blackburn, Illinois
Group Shows
2024 StudioKind Summer Open, Barnstaple, Devon
Black Swan Arts Open, Frome, Somerset
Through Line, Maltings Taphouse Gallery, Newton Abbot, Devon
Artizan Summer Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay
ACT With The Arts Climate Festival, Sherborne House, Newton Abbot, Devon
Ilminster Art Centre Open, Somerset
It Rose And It Fell, Terrace Open, Patchworks, London
Artizan Women’s Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon (also 2023)
Murmuration, J\M Gallery, London
A Social Exchange, Exeter Custom House
Out With The Old, In With The New, Studio KIND, Barnstaple, Devon
English Riviera Winter Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon
2023 Art and Artefact, MakeTank, Exeter, Devon (four-person show, sponsored by Art Haven)
Summer Open, Studio Kind, Braunton, Devon
#Instructions2LiveBy with Preston Street Union, Central Library, Exeter, Devon
2022 Wordplay Fringe Arts Bath 44 AD Artspace, Bath
Green Hill Arts Open, Moretonhampstead, Devon
Beyond The 4 Walls, The Old Brick Workshop, Wellington, Somerset
Re:Wild, MakeTank, Exeter
2021 Bath Open Art Prize, 44 AD Artspace, Bath
Displace Meant Activity, Wells Art Contemporary, installation in Wells Cathedral
#InstructionsToLiveBy Collaborative project with Preston Street Union, Exeter
Forests and Feasts, Powderham Castle, Devon
Open Fragment, Pragmata Collective, https://pragmatacollective.co.uk/
Urban Bonsai, Collect Connect, part of the Urban Tree Festival, London
Restriction, Correspondence Collective, Clayhill Arts, Bridgwater, Somerset
2020 Brave New World, The Glorious Art House, Exeter, Devon
Lockdown, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield (online only)
Humanising medicine, Being Human Festival, Queen Mary University, London
Together Apart, That Art Gallery, Bristol
Open Minded, Albe Art Gallery, https://www.albeartgallery.com/openminded
Sentinel Trees, Collect Connect, part of the Urban Tree Festival, London
The Art of Caring, Collect Connect
Anyone may come and go Collaborative project with Preston Street Union, RAMM, Exeter
commissioned by RAMM, funded by ACE
2019 Love Tokens and Bad Pennies, Unsettled Gallery, London
FRWA open exhibition, RWA, Bristol
Organic Arts, Boatyard Café, and West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter
The Art of Caring, St Georges and St Pancras Hospitals, London (also 2017, 2018)
Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD, Bath
The Care Trail, Crediton Library, Devon
Late Summer Exhibition, curated by Frickleton Fine Art, King’s Hill, Kent
2018 Listening Towers, Small World Futures, Unsettled Gallery, London
Small Worlds, Aabenraa, Denmark
ART HAVEN on the Rue de Paris,The AWEsome Art Space, Exeter
AWEsome Art Space
Galleries R Us, Preston Street Union, Art Week Exeter
Doorways, Pavilion of Painting and Murmuration -- 3 exhibitions at Fringe Arts Bath
A Letter In Mind, gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London
Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth School of Creative Arts, 22 Millbay Road, Plymouth
TRE i En, Galleri Nexus, Uge Bygade 7, 6360 Tinglev, Denmark
2017 PAY & DISPLAY, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
The Preston Street Union Random Art Machine, PS45, Art Week Exeter
Makers of the Multiverse, Juneau Projects, Spacex, Exeter
Helluo Librorum, with Preston Street Union for Art Week Exeter, Exeter Library
Refuge, FAB 2, Bath
The Observatory, The Forum, University of Exeter
Bandwidth, Art Haven, PS45, Exeter
Alternative Facts Factory, organicARTS, West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter
Hand Held View, Barnoon Workshop, St Ives, Cornwall
2016 The Art of Caring, St Pancras Hospital, London and Rose Theatre, Kingston upon
Thames, Surrey (also 2015)
The Open Square, Royal United Hospital, Bath
A Letter In Mind, Gallery@Oxo, London
US CHAPS, Art Vending Machine (also 2017) and Bookmarks, with Preston Street
Union for Art Week Exeter
2015 Roper Gallery, BAS, Bath
Definitely Devon, RAMM Exeter, Devon
In And Out Of The Frame, Art Haven at The Glorious Art House, Exeter, Devon
2014 The Bowie Gallery, Totnes, Devon (also 2009 - 13)
Hidden Treasure Tearoom, Exeter (also 2013)
Art@96, Topsham, Devon (also 2013)
2013 Creekside Open 2013 (Selected by Paul Noble) APT Gallery, London
Art Haven @ Redearth Gallery, Tiverton, Devon (also 2011, 2012)
Sound Sight Exhibition, Shaw Gallery, Croydon
Gloss Gallery, Exeter
Cardboard City, London
The Button Project, Barnaby Festival
Patternotion (book)
2012 Flameworks, Plymouth, Devon
Sidcot Arts Centre, Winscombe, Somerset (also 2009)
Northcott Theatre, Exeter, Devon
2011 The Bowie Gallery, Totnes, Devon (also 2009, 2010)
Magnet Art: Light Bite, Nottingham; Brighton Open, Brighton Pier; Rarities, Hastings
MOAP, New Hampshire, USA
2009 Art Haven, Exeter, Devon (also 1999, 2000, 2004)
Forest Tunes, CCANW, Haldon Forest Park, Devon
Lutyens gallery, Hestercombe, Somerset
2008 Cork Street Annual Open Exhibition for Charity, Cork Street Gallery, London
Art Haven, Gallery 86, Crediton, Devon
2007 The Big Works, Gallery Terracina, Exeter, Devon
ARTSPACES, The Flavel, Dartmouth, & other venues around Devon
2005 Reasons to Love the Earth, Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht
Small Originals, Ashburton, Devon; Art Bar Live, Exeter, Devon
2004 The Art Bar Summer Fair & Wrapped Up In Art, Exeter, Devon
On The Wall, Olympia, London
2003 Being Here, Phoenix Art Centre, Exeter, Devon
What do you make of this?, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon
Size Matters 2, a space Gallery, Southampton
Secret, RCA, London
2002 Hands On Touring Art, Burton Art Gallery, Bideford; Torre Abbey & Torquay Museum
2001 Drawing Show, Phoenix Art Centre, Exeter, Devon
JAA, Candid Gallery, London
2000 The Interface Between Art, Science & Technology in the New Millennium, New Greenham Arts
Summer Exhibition, Wahle Contemporary Art, Exeter, Devon
Hark, Sui Generis Gallery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Extraordinary Drawings, Art Haven, Exeter, Devon
Visual Arts Festival, Torre Abbey, Devon
1999 From Public to Private, Exeter, Devon
The Sky, the Sea and the Bit in between, Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon
Inspirations 1, RAMM, Exeter, Inspirations 2, Ariel Centre, Totnes, Devon
Artists on Screen, Picture House, Exeter, Devon
Traces of Five Millennia, The Hanover Galleries, Liverpool
Taunton Open Drawing Exhibition, Taunton, Somerset
1998 The Mythic Garden Sculpture Exhibition, Stone Farm, Chagford, Devon (also 1996)
Wood in Art, Colyton, Devon
1997 Brighton Festival Exhibition, Brighton, Sussex
Turner Gallery, Exeter, Devon
1996 Postbox 1996, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton, Somerset
Rebound, Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire
Christmas Box, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton, Somerset (also 1993, 1994)
1995 Mapping the Margins, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton, Somerset
Rebound – Stranger Than Fiction and Christmas Exhibition, Site Gallery, Sheffield
1994 Artward Bound, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon
Stella Maris School, Bideford, Devon; Whale on the Quay, Exeter, Devon
Yaohan Plaza, London
Women's Eye Exhibition, Seymour Gallery, Totnes, Devon
1993 Flesh & Blood, Proteus Artists Network, Lancaster
Woman Made, Coopers Gallery, Bristol, Avon
Drawings of Distinction, Paul Fowler Studio, London
Malvern Open Drawing Competition, Malvern Art Gallery, Malvern, Worcs.
Women's Eye Exhibition, Exeter Arts Centre (also 1992) and Tiverton, Devon
PFS Winter Still Life and Landscape Exhibition, City of London
1992 Colour Dominant, Black Swan Guild, Frome, Somerset
1991 Betjeman Country, Wadebridge, Cornwall (prizewinner)
EAST (National Open Art Exhibition), Norwich Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
Work in Progress, Proteus Artists Network, Gwndwn Workshops, Bridell, Dyfed
New Art in Exeter, Harlequin Centre, Exeter, Devon
1990 8x8x4, Proteus Artists Network, Ludus Gallery, Lancaster
International Open Exhibition of Miniature Prints, Intaglio Printmaker, London
1989 Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Avon
Women’s Eye, Saltram House, Plymouth
Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Devon (also 1985, 1987, 1988)
1988 Small Pictures Exhibition, Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire (also 1986, 1987)
Oriel Gallery, Cardiff
1987 2nd Northlands Art Show, Cheltenham & Gloucester
1986 Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
1985 Iron Bridge Art Centre, Exeter, Devon
1983 U.C. Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois (also 1982, awarded Graduate Fellowship)
1982 Mid States Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Science, Evansvillle, Indiana
Wabash Valley Exhibition, Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana
Clay/Fiber Invitational, Peoria Art Guild, Illinois
1981 Three in One, Illini Union Art Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
Graduate Show, Paul Sargent Gallery, Charleston, Illinois. Paul Turner Sargent Scholarship
Qualifications
1983 MFA, Southern Illinois University, USA
thesis: Beyond the Frame
1981 MA Fine Art, Eastern Illinois University, USA
thesis: Eva Hesse: Art, life and absurdity
1976-77 part-time postgraduate Printmaking course, Camberwell School of Art & Crafts, London
1976 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Portsmouth Polytechnic (Painting and Printmaking)
thesis: Vision and Sightless Perception
1971-73 Foundation Course, Somerset College of Art
Teaching
1988-90 part-time Art Tutor, Adult Education, Exeter, Devon
1985-86 part-time Tutor, Iron Bridge Art Centre, Exeter, Devon
1981-82 Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University. USA
1980-81 Teaching Assistant, Eastern Illinois University, USA
1979-80 part-time Lecturer, Hertfordshire College of Art & Design
1977-79 part-time Art Tutor, Adult Education Institutes, London
1976 Lecturer in Printmaking, Camberwell School of Art & Crafts, London
Affiliations
2015- Founding member of Preston Street Union (PSU): an Exeter based affiliation of artists
exploring collaborative processes (initiated by Trevor Pitt)
2013-15 President of Exeter Synagogue
2000-19 Member of Art Haven, (artist-led initiative curating and participating in exhibitions; running
gallery on Exeter Quay; managing arts in offices scheme for HW accountants, Exeter)
1989-99 Women’s Eye Exeter based group of exhibiting artists
1988- freelance book-cover designer (including for Macmillan, London)
Collections
Eastern Illinois University, USA, Southern Illinois University, USA, Exeter University, UK
Private collections in the UK, USA, Holland and Israel
Publications
2017 Colouring Walls: A Visual Exploration of Difference and Integration (chapbook) paperback
2016 Murmurations: A Visual Exploration of Individuality and Community (chapbook) paperback
Performance/ Projects
2019 Serge/Surge with Preston Street Union, Exeter. Commissioned by RAMM, funded by ACE
2017 Five Bridges and a Waffle with Preston Street Union, Art Week Exeter
1999 co-ordinator: Exeter Visual Arts Weekend: Open Studios
1998-03 DAISI project: (Devon Artists in Schools Initiative)
1993-94 Artward Bound project: Colyton School, Devon, and RAMM, Exeter, Devon