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C.V.       

Education/Training

BA(Hons) Fine Art, Coventry University, 1990-1993
CITB SSSTS (H & S for Site Supervisors) Certificate  (currently expired)
CSCS Site Operative (Construction Skills Certificate Scheme) (currently expired)
Enhanced CRB

Founding Director/Trustee of Platform Arts Studios and Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough Train Station.

Public Commissions

2013 – 2016

‘Seeds of Enterprise’. A63 Roundabout Sculpture, Leeds, Leeds City Council
‘Saxon Molecules’, Quenby Rd Entrance Feature, Billingham, Groundwork NE
‘Discovery’, Hummersea Hills Artworks, Loftus, Coast & Country Housing
Hemlington Artworks, Middlesbrough, Groundwork NE
‘Navigation’ Chertsey Green Artworks, Middlesbrough, Groundwork NE
‘Orchard Fruits’, Orchard Village, EssexWilmott Dixon/Circle Housing/PRP
‘From Beneath’, Skelton Asda, Terrace Hill Ltd
‘Journeys’, Edge Hill Sculpture, Liverpool Council
‘Blaydon Races’ Sculpture,Gateshead Council

2010 - 2013

‘To the future’ Artwork,Spring St,Stockton,  Stockton Council
‘Seed’, Helios Apts, Singapore,Wing Tai Holdings
‘Resilience’, The Steeplechase, Redcar,FHM & Coast & Country Housing
‘Dice’, Northlands Play Area, Chester-le-Street, Durham County Council
‘Ironstone’, Hill View Park, Middlesbrough, Erimus Housing/ Groundwork NE
‘Square & Pencil’, East Middlesbrough Ind Estates,Groundwork North East
‘Rivets’, Gateshead Riverside Park, Gatehead Council.

2004 – 2010

‘Growth’, Linthorpe Cemetery, Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough Council
‘Primary Growth’, Epping Primary School, Epping, Essex, Essex County Council
‘Organism’, Saltburn Cliff Lift Commission,Saltburn, Cleveland, Groundwork NE
‘Jewels of the Sea’,East Shore Village, Seaham, Yuill,Miller & Haslam Homes
‘Crystallisation’ , Albert Park, Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough Council
‘Strata’, Wall Relief Sculptures, Sure Start, Middlesbrough
‘Germination’, Portrack Meadows, Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, Stockton on Tees.

2000 - 2003

‘Seeds’, St. Phillips Square Sculpture, Salford, Salford City Council
‘FeO2’, Consett Park Artworks, Consett, Co. Durham, Derwentside Council
‘Buds’, Riverside Park Sculptures, Chester-le-St, Chester-le-St Council
‘River’, Glebe Park railings & bollard designs, Groundwork Middlesbrough
‘Doorway’, Millennium Green Sculpture,South Bank, Middlesbrough
‘Breaking the Mould’, 21 marker sculptures for 21 Groundwork Changing Places
sites across England & Wales, Groundwork UK.
‘Relic’, Millennium Green Sculpture,Newfield, County Durham
‘Remnants’, Blackburn Sculpture Trail, Blackburn, Groundwork Blackburn

Arts Employment

1994 - 1997

Sculpture Demonstrator, (part time) BA Fine Art , Cleveland College of Art and Design
Assistant Public Arts Officer, Cleveland Arts,Middlesbrough

Awards and Grants

Arts Council International Development Fund – Research Grant 2012
Berlin Artists Research Trip – an publications 2005
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council – Design Award Winner 2002
Northern Arts – Training at The Portland Sculpture Trust 2000
Teesside Development Corporation – Individual Artists Award 1999
Middlesbrough Council – Artists Bursary 1999
Richard Mills Travel Award – To study Public Art in Holland 1998

Publications & Press

Sculpture Park and Trail Of Britain & Ireland, 2nd Edition, Alison Stace, Bloomsbury, 2013, p22, 24 & 51.
‘Art at the Helm’, Singapore Business Times, Executive Lifestyle p 1,Friday 2nd March 2012
‘Seeds of Change’, The Guardian & Observer Guides to Secret Britain,April 2009, p18 & 19.
North East House Hunter Magazine, Front Page, 6th Aug 2010. Issue 463
Touchstone Magazine, Front & Centre Pages, Issue 14, Dec 2007.