He was Principal Lecturer and Course Leader in Sculpture at Camberwell School of Art & Crafts, 1986 – 1989; Henry Moore Foundation Artist Fellow at Christ’s College / Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 1990 – 1991; Sargant Fellow at the British School at Rome in 1994 and Head of Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School between 1998 – 2000. He is currently Principal of the School, a position to which he was appointed in the year 2000.

1962 – 66 Graduated, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, BA (Hons). Fine Art.
1966 – 68 Graduated, University of Reading. M.F.A.

Personal Statement & Research

I am a Still-Life artist of an unconventional kind, inasmuch as I work in three dimensions for the most part. Objects fascinate me, not because they stimulate the urge to possess but because of their capacity to reflect aspects of our sensory and psychological condition. In part, we are both ‘what we see’ and ‘the way we see’. The relationship between human subject and perceived object is sufficiently complex to dispel the idea of ‘innocence’, whether that of ‘the observer’ or ‘the observed’.

I like to think that the art objects I make both confirm the mystery we are to ourselves as well as exposing in a challenging way some of the vagaries that inform our sense of reality.

Solo Exhibitions

• 1983 Images of Subject/Object duality – 1968 – 82 Serpentine Gallery, London; Musée de Toulon, France.
• 1991 Sculptures & Reliefs – 1984 – 91 Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge.
• 1992 Work relating to the Gulf War. The Imperial War Museum, London; Historiale de la Grande Guerre, Picardie, France.
• 2001 Objects in a minor key Galerie Papillon – Fiat, Paris.

Group Exhibitions

• 1984 The British Art Show – old allegiances and new directions, 1979-1984 Arts Council Touring Exhibition.
• 1986 Falls the Shadow – Recent British and European Art Hayward Gallery, London.
• 1996 Abstrakt/Real Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, Vienna.
• 2005 Effervescence – La sculpture ‘anglaise’ dans les collections publiques francaises Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers.

Awards

• 1967 Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Prize. Young Contemporaries. Tate Gallery, London.
• 1975 Arts Council of Great Britain. Major Award.
• 1980 Arts Council of Great Britain. Major Award.
• 1988 Unilever Award, Whitechapel Open Exhibition. Whitechapel Gallery, London.