Biography
Born July 1971, Ipswich, UK
Lives and works in Birmingham, UK
2000-02 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
1990-93 BA Hons Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
Solo exhibitions/projects
2009 Lands End Grundy Gallery, Blackpool
Lands End Spike Island, Bristol
2008 Lands End IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Interventions Barber Institute, Birmingham
Lands End Oriel Davies, Wales
Postcards, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 Legerdemains, Cabinet Magazine, New York
2006 A Place of Rainbows, Arquebuse, Geneva
Ruth Claxton, The Collective, Edinburgh.
2004 I thought I was the Audience and then I looked at You, University Gallery, Colchester
I thought I was the Audience and then I looked at You, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
2003 I thought I was the Audience and then I looked at You, The Window, Birmingham
2000 I am Big I am Oscar, Space Banana, Birmingham
Selected group exhibitions
2009 Trade City Excocet and Contemporary Art Manchester, Manchester
Known Unknown Gallery Loop, Seoul
Gothic Contemporary Art Society fundraising exhibition, Sothebys, London
Back of the Head Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Fantopia Mothers Tankstation, Dublin
2008 Miami NADA, with Arquebuse
Zoo Art Fair , London with Arquebuse and Eastside Projects
Make Believe (part of Concrete and Glass), Shoreditch, London
The Art of Birmingham 1939-2008, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
No End in Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris
The Golden Record, The Collective, Edinburgh, The Collection, Lincoln
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
2007 Zoo Art Fair , London with Arquebuse and Strategic Questions
Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde, Home House, London
The Islanders, Nettie Horn, London
An Archaeology, Project space 176, London
Self Effaced, FA Projects, London
Paulette Phillips, Marie-France & Patricia Martin , Ruth Claxton, Danielle Arnaud, London
Extreme Crafts, CAC, Vilnius
Flock, Arquebuse, Geneva
Citadel, David Risley, London
What is Comprehension? Strategic Questions, 52nd Venice Biennale
Salon 2007 – New British painting and works on paper, 319 Portobello Road, London
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
Things we lost in the Fire, Leicester City Art Gallery
2006 Personne ne veut mourir, Arquebuse, Geneva
Jaggy Edge, Travelling Gallery Edinburgh and touring
London Elsewhere, Gallerie Bernhard Knaus, Manheim
Contemporary Art Society Collectors Group Event, Industrial Museum, Bristol
The new Birmingham school of business school, Island House, Birmingham
Drawing Links, The Drawing Room, London, International3 Manchester, Outpost, Norwich
Things we lost in the fire, Transition, London
Brownfields, Lounge, London, MAC Birmingham.
2005 Globalocal’, NAB, Birmingham, curated by Kenny Schachter
Zoo Art Fair, LOT
All at once and all together at the same time, Colony, Birmingham
Discomfort, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (catalogue)
Orphan, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Doppler Effect – The Questions Archive, residency with Kelly Large, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition, LOT, Bristol.
2004 Commonground, Artsway, Hampshire
The Doppler Effect part 1, (collaboration with Sandra Bridie) Ocular Lab, Melbourne,
developed with Kelly Large.
Crystal Peaks, S1 Projects, Sheffield.
Pilot 1, Limehouse Town Hall, London.
Clash, curated by Andrew Marsh, City Space, Birmingham (catalogue)
XS, fa Projects, London
2003 Cabinet of Curiosities, Curating Contemporary Art Department, Royal College of Art, London
Cultivate, commissioned site-specific piece, Oak House, West Bromwich
East International, selected by Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild, Norwich Gallery (catalogue)
Wunderkammer, Custard Factory, Birmingham
Mostyn 13, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno (catalogue)
We are Relentless, Custard Factory, Birmingham
2002 Site-specific installation, British Council Project, Museum of Art and Antiquities, Khartoum, Sudan
Bibliography
2009 Frieze, (London) Looking Back, Emerging Artists
nominated by Mike Stanley, Jan/Feb
2008 Art Forum, (New York) review Barry
Schwabsky, September
Lands End, catalogue, pub. IKON, essay by Sally O’Reilly
Guardian Guide 04/10 Preview of Postcards at Ingleby, Robert
Clarke
Art World Magazine, (London) new work section, June
ID Magazine, (New York) Mangle with Care, Eve Kahn, May
Art
of England Magazine Two artists One Day, Nathaniel
Pitt, April
Guardian
Guide 29/03 Preview of Lands End at IKON gallery, Robert
Clarke
Fragiles, book pub De Gestalten Verlag
Ceramics Review, Ceramics and Installation, Emma Shaw, January/Feb
2007 Total:Spec (London) Anne Mulrooney,
September
Cabinet (New York), Artists project, summer issue
Furnish, book pub De Gestalten Verlag
Guardian
Guide 10/03
Things We Lost in the Fire, Robert Clarke
2006 Generator
1 and 2,
book, Article Press
Uber
die Sinne,
book, pub Oberosterreichiscghe Landesmuseum, Linz
Flash
Art (Milan),
A Place of Rainbows review, Jane Neal, November
Becks
Futures,
catalogue, ICA London
Drawing
Links,
catalogue, Drawing Room, London
2005 Art Monthly (London), The Rudiments of
Ornamental Composition, Sarah James, May
a-n
Magazine (Newcastle), The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition, David Trigg, May
The
Times 27/09 Visual Art :
Fabrication, Morgan
Falconer,
Wallpaper magazine (London), Breaking the mould, Jane Withers
May
2004 I thought I was the
Audience and then I looked at You, catalogue, essay by Helen Legg,
pub. University of Essex
2003 Contemporary (London), East International,
Sotiris Kyriacou, issue 56
Art
Monthly (London), East International, Dan Smith, September
East
International, catalogue, pub. Norwich Gallery essay by Lynda Morris
Mostyn13, catalogue, pub. Oriel
Mostyn, Llandudno
Metro, 08/04 Wunderkammer, Simon Webb
2002 Garden Design
Journal 12/02,
Art in the Garden, Mark Richards.
Projects
and other activity
2009 Residency,
Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden
2009 The Sculpture Show, Eastside Projects,
co-curated with Gavin Wade
2007- Company
Director, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2004- Lecturer,
Visual Arts, Birmingham City University
2004- Member of Centre for Fine Art Research Group, BCU
2008 Mentor, BCAF, Bristol
2007-8 Visiting
Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
2007 SW Arts Residency,
Spike Island, Bristol
2007 Workshop
leader, British Council Project, Damascus, Syria
2006-8 Pub Conversations, Birmingham (as part of Self
Service)
2005-7 Mentor, Commissions East, Cambridge
2006 Alexsandra
Mir and Robert Orchardson, IPS Bournville, co curated
with Gavin Wade
2006 Sandra Bridie and
the Questions Archive,
IPS Bournville, co-curated with Kelly Large
2005 Albrecht Schäfer and
Michael Stumpf,
IPS Bournville, co-curated with Gavin Wade
2005 Doppler Effect, curatorial project developed
between UK and Australia with Kelly Large
2005 Trading places, article for [an] collection
series
2005 Editor and website
moderator, www.midwest.org.uk
2005 Mentor, Artsway,
Hampshire (for Arthouse)
2004 December
Artists Story, article [an] magazine
2003 Khartoum
Challenge, article
[an] magazine
2003 Firing the
Imagination in Khartoum, article British Council News, Feb/May
2002 Workshop
leader, British Council Project, Khartoum, Sudan
Awards
and Nominations
2007 Nominated
for Art Futures by Miranda Sawyer
Arts Council England, West Midlands, Grants for the
Arts
2006 Nominated
for Becks Futures by Claire Doherty
Arts Council England, West Midlands, Grants for the
Arts
2005 Arts Council England, West Midlands, Grants
for the Arts
2004 Arts Council England, West Midlands, Grants
for the Arts
2003-4 Arts Council England, West
Midlands, Creative Ambition Award
2002 Lattice Award,
cross-college award for MA show
2000-2 Royal College of Art, London,
Bursary
2000 West Midlands Arts,
Creative Ambition Award
1994 East Midlands Arts,
Artists in Schools Award
