An ongoing series of mixed media images on board combining mechanical means of production with gestural mark-making.

 

These are multi layered pieces using photographic imagery which is laser cut and collaged with acrylic paint and mediums.

 

30.5cm by 40.5cm

Current practice combines the use of photomechanical production techniques and autographic mark making.

 

The work explores the soft boundary between abstraction and representation. Interests include the marriage of new technologies with redundant craft processes.

 

Themes:

 

Autographic vs Photographic

Machined vs Handmade

Gesture vs Control

Conscious vs Subconscious

1998-2010      Board Member and Trustee, Storey Gallery Lancaster

                       Exhibition Committee, Storey Gallery Lancaster.

                       Selection & Curatorial

 

2003               Steering Group and selection panel chair.

                       Lancaster Short Film & New Media Festival, Folly Lancaster

 

1996               Member of selection panel for National Student Open

                       Printmaking Show, Storey Institute, Lancaster

 

1989-1992      Member, management committee and educational co-ordinator

                       of Borderline Printmakers

 

2005-2007      PGCE in Post Compulsory Education,

                       University of Greenwich

 

1994-1995      Wimbledon School of Art  (WSA), MA Printmaking

 

1993               Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Swedish Institute Scholarship

 

1993-1994      Wimbledon School of Art (WSA), Postgraduate Printmaking

 

1986-1989      Staffordshire Polytechnic, BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking 2:1

 

1985-1986      Diploma in Foundation Studies Art & Design,

                       Leicester Polytechnic

 

1994...            Programme Area Manager, Visual & Creative Studies,

                       Lancaster & Morecambe College

 

1995-96          Lanchester Gallery Resident Artist, Coventry University.

                       Tutorial responsibility level 6 & 7

 

1995               Visiting Lecturer, Bolton Institute of Higher Education

 

1993-95          Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire,

                       Department of Design, Printmaking

 

1993-95          Visiting Lecturer, Grafikskolan i Stockholm, Sweden

 

1992-94          Technician in Screen printing,

                       University of Central Lancashire (Part time)

 

1991-93          Lecturer, Newcastle under Lyme College,

                       Printmaking, Painting and Drawing

 

                        Work has been exhibited nationally and internationally

                        including: Hong Kong, New York, Spain, Portugal,

                        Sweden & Canada

 

2017                The Triangle Lancaster, with Emma Grover

                        ‘Honourable Mention’, The Biennial International Miniature

                        Print Exhibition (BIMPE), Vancouver

 

1996-2017       Big Gap!

 

1996                Lowick House Printmaking Workshop, Residency

 

1995-6             Lanchester Gallery Resident Coventry University

 

1995                Award for Innovation in Contemporary Printmaking,

                        Boundless, Huddersfield

 

1993                Falkiner Fine Paper Award (WSA Postgraduate show)

 

1992                Swedish Institute Bilateral Scholarship,

                        Konsthogskolan, Stockholm

 

Estuary Vessels

 

This series of hand-printed photograms are a record of debris washed up on the estuary of the Lune River near Lancaster, UK. The ‘vessels’ were all collected on one walk along a stretch of the estuary that collects a mass of tidal rubbish, a record of consumption and disposal.

 

The prints are hand-printed on a fibre based photographic paper (Hahnemuhle) the variables in the process mean that even if only subtly, each print has unique qualities.

 

This is a variable suite of prints with up to sixty different ‘vessels’.

 

17.5cm by 12.5 cm

 

An ongoing series of mixed media images on board combining mechanical means of production with gestural mark-making.

 

These are multi layered pieces using photographic imagery which is laser cut and collaged with acrylic paint and mediums.

 

25.5cm by 20.5cm

 

Small photographs, laser cut and collaged with acrylic mediums.

 

Unique images.

17cm by 12.5cm

 

Small collages of painted on photographs which have been laser cut and collaged. Acrylic, acrylic mediums, photo, laser cut collage.

 

Unique images.

17cm by 12.5cm

 

An open ended series of laser engravings, intaglio printed with unique Chine-collé on Hahnemuhle paper.

 

Although the processes used are mechanical and reproducible each print from the series is unique in it’s combination of hand typed Chine-collé, the doodle with which it is printed and the colour in which the doodle is inked.

 

When selected and exhibited at The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition (BIMPE), Vancouver the work was awarded an ‘Honourable Mention’.

 

15cm by 10cm