Statement My work deals with the themes of our relationships to each other as human beings, and the way in which we relate to our environment. I want to dramatise the complexity of these relationships. On one level my subject is the struggle of the individual to achieve personal liberation and knowledge through the journey inward. This part of my work is expressed using visionary imagery of a personal nature, accumulated over many years in numerous drawings and paintings.
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also want to dramatise the conflict between contemporary political and
social realities, consumerist capitalism, and the exploitation of the
natural world, with those other, wholly organic and natural processes
that exist in the world.
The cultural, historical, and allegorical associations of these references will locate our present situation within the context of our unbroken history.
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Biography I
was brought up in the North of England, in Rochdale near Manchester.
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Date of Birth: |
19/06/59 |
Education: 1999-2000 Kensington
and Chelsea College: 1978-1981 Sheffield
Hallam University 1977 Rochdale
College of Art
‘Mutiny
at the Bargehouse’, Oxo Tower Wharf, ‘360
degrees’ at the Camden Roundhouse, London 2001
Picture Man Gallery, Chiswick, London 1998 Sunshine Gallery, Hay’s Galleria, London 1995
Meard Street Gallery, Artist’s Co-operative, Athena Art Awards, Barbican Art Gallery, London 1987 Athena Art Awards, Mall Galleries, London 1986 Dover Street Gallery, Piccadilly, London 1986 Royal Academy Business Galleries, London 1985 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 1984 Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk 1984 Vauxhall Grove Artists’ Co-operative, London 1983
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries Swinton Art Gallery, Manchester 1978 Rochdale Art Gallery 1976
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