Biography
Born July 1971, Ipswich, 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 Spike Island, Bristol
Lands End Grundy Gallery, Blackpool
2008
Lands End IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Lands End Oriel Davies, Newtown
Interventions Barber Institute, Birmingham
Postcards, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2007
Flock Arquebuse, Geneva
Legerdemains, Cabinet magazine, New York
2006
A Place of Rainbows Arquebuse, Geneva
Ruth Claxton The Collective, Edinburgh
2004
I thought I was the Audience ... University Gallery, Colchester.
I thought I was the Audience ... Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
Selected group exhibitions
2008
No End in Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris
The Golden Record, The Collective, Edinburgh
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
2007
Zoo Art Fair, London (with Arquebuse and Strategic Questions)
The Islanders, Nettie Horn, London
An Archaeology, Project Space 176, London
Self Effaced, FA Projects, London
Ruth Claxton, Marie-France and Patricia Martin and Paulette Phillips, Danielle Arnaud, London
Strategic Questions - What is comprehension’, Strategic Questions, 52nd Venice Biennale
Citadel 1, David Risley London (May)
Extreme Craft CAC Vilnius, Lithuania (May)
Salon 2007 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
The new Birmingham school of Business School Colony, Birmingham
Drawing Links The Drawing Room, London, International3, Outpost
Things we lost in the fire Transition, London
Brownfields Lounge, London, MAC Birmingham.
2005
Globalocal NAB, Birmingham, curated by Kenny Schacter
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 Ocular Lab, Melbourne
The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition LOT, Bristol
2004
Commonground Artsway, Hampshire
The Doppler Effect part 1 (with S. Bridie and K. Large) Ocular Lab
Crystal Peaks S1 Projects, Sheffield.
Pilot 1 Limehouse Town Hall, London.
XS fa Projects, London
2003
Cabinet of Curiosities Curating Contemporary Art Department, RCA, 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)
2002
Site-specific installation British Council Project, Khartoum, Sudan
Art in the Garden Chelsea Physic Garden, London
2001
Incorporated Atrium Gallery, Embankment Place, London
One day all this will be yours RCA, London
2000
Young Sculptors from the West Midlands Jerwood Sculpture Park
Bibliography
2008
Lands End, catalogue, pub IKON, essay by Sally O’Reilly
Art World Magazine, (new work section) June
ID Magazine, (New York) May
Fragiles, book pub De Gestalten Verlag
Ceramics Review, January/Feb
2007
Total:Spec magazine, September
Cabinet magazine, Artists project (forthcoming)
Furniture, pub De Gestalten Verlag
Guardian Guide 10/03 Things We Lost in the Fire review
2006
Generator 1 and 2, Article Press
Uber die Sinne, book, pub Oberosterreichiscghe Landesmuseum, Linz
A place of rainbows, Jane Neal, Flash Art (Milan) November
Becks Futures, cataogue, ICA London
Drawing Links, catalogue, Drawing Room, London
2005 The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition, Sarah James, Art Monthly
The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition, David Trigg, a-n Magazine
Breaking the mould, Jane Withers, Wallpaper, May
2004
I thought I was the Audience ... catalogue, essay by Helen Legg, pub. University of Essex
2003
East International, Sotiris Kyriacou, Contemporary (London), issue 56
East International, Dan Smith, Art Monthly (London), September
East International, catalogue, pub. Norwich Gallery
Mostyn13, catalogue, pub. Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
Wunderkammer, Simon Webb Metro, 8 April
2002
Art in the Garden, Mark Richards, Garden Design Journal, Dec '02
Curatorial/other projects
2007- Company Director, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2004- Lecturer, Visual Arts, University of Central England, Birmingham
2004- Member of Centre for Fine Art Research Group, UCE, Birmingham
2008 Mentor, BCAF, Bristol
2007-8 Visiting Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
2007 Workshop leader, British Council Project, Damascus, Syria
2006-7 Pub Conversations, Birmingham (as part of Self Service)
2005-7 Mentor, Commissions East, Cambridge
2004- Member of Centre for Fine Art Research Group, UCE Birmingham
2006 Alexsandra Mir & Robert Orchardson, IPS Bournville with Gavin Wade
2006 Sandra Bridie & the Questions Archive, IPS Bournville with Kelly Large
2005 Albrecht Schäfer & Michael Stumpf, IPS Bournville with Gavin Wade
2005 Doppler Effect with Kelly Large
2005 Editor and website moderator, www.midwest.org.uk
2005 Mentor, Arthouse, Artsway, Hampshire
Published Writing
2005 Trading places, [an] collection series
2004 December Artists Story, [an] magazine
2003 Khartoum Challenge [an] magazine article
2003 Firing the Imagination in Khartoum British Council News, Feb/May
Awards
2007 Arts Council England, West Midlands, Grants for the Arts (R & D)
2006 ACE , West Midlands, GFA (Collective gallery exhibition)
2005 ACE, West Midlands, GFA (Melbourne residency and project development)
2004 ACE West Midlands, GFA (exhibition production and catalogue)
2003-4 ACE, 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
