Current Work

Brief Description of Current Work

Artist's Statement

Technical Information

Most of my figurative ceramic sculptures are hand-built one-offs, using a system of rods like an external and internal scaffold. I freely build the figures, removing the supports once the clay can withstand its own weight.

This working method allows me to be free and spontaneous with the forms of the sculpture.  I sponge-decorate my work with oxides, stains and glazes.

Some of my other ceramic sculptures are press-moulded limited editions.

I also make large Polychrome (coloured mixed media) sculptures for outdoor settings in editions of 9 or 12, and smaller bronze resin sculptures for indoors.

History

1961 - Born, Northampton, England

Art Education
1983 - Leicester Polytechnic: 2:1 BA Hons Fine Art Sculpture
1985 - Hertfordshire College of Art and Design: Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy

Employment
1987 to 1997 - Employed as a full time sculptor. Stoke-on-Trent figurine industry 
I have worked full-time from my own ceramics studio since 1998

Exhibitions

Solo
2010 September, Cambridge Contemporary Art – “Supernature”
2004 June, Cambridge Contemporary Art - "If you go down to the woods today..."
2001 July, Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, Derbyshire - "ANIMALISM"

Small Group Exhibitions
2007 June, Cambridge Contemporary Art – 2 person show with painter Nicola Slattery
2006 July, Grizzly Tales – Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Derbyshire, Showcase of new work as part of the Buxton Festival Fringe
2003 May, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Featured Ceramicist
2000 Nov, Sanderson, George & Peach, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, Featured Ceramicist in Christmas Show
1999 May, Ashbourne Gallery, Derbyshire - 2 Man Show with painter Angelo Murphy

Art Fairs
1999 - 2008 Glasgow Art Fair - with the Lost Gallery  (April) 
2000 - 2010 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London (except 2004) - with the Lost Gallery and then the Hayloft Gallery
2008 - 2010 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol (with the Hayloft Gallery)

Art Festivals