Curriculum Vitae

Artwork

September 2015

How Can I Tell What I Think Till I See What I Say?

Installation, Customs House Gallery South Shields

 

April 2015

Out of Place

Installation, group exhibition: Borderlands, Gallery North, University of Northumbria at Newcastle

 

March 2015

Landscopes

Performance as part of Drafting, a two day drawing event, Baltic 39

 

June 2014

Self Build

Performance lecture, BxNU Symposium: Cloudscape, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead

 

December 2013

Still Life

Performance, Performance Space, Hackney Wick, London

 

November 2013

In The Dark

Performance, collaboration with Carole Luby, GSN Project Space, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne

Still Life

Performance, group exhibition, What Is Drawing? Customs House, South Shields, South Tyneside

 

September 2013

Stuff of Dreams

Performance lecture, in Mapping the Return event, part of Returning to the Philosophers' Table, Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

September - November 2013

Hot Charcoal Drawings and Galata Landscapes

Group exhibition, What Is Drawing? Customs House, South Shields, South Tyneside

 

June 2013

Fictions

Group exhibition as part of Returning to the Philosophers' Table, Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

May 2013

Souvenir

Sculpture, group exhibition, Cabinet of Wonders, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne

Bird in Hand

Performance, Late Shows, Museums at Night event, Literary and Philosophical Society Library, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

October - November 2012

Moving In

Site specific installation, Departure Foundation, New Curators North East, Tower House, Sunderland

 

September 2012

Just Visiting

Performance as part of group exhibition/intervention, The Hearing Trumpet, West Dean, West Sussex

 

March 2012

Tea Event

Performance, group exhibition, Departure Foundation, Sunderland Art Prize, Tower House, Sunderland

 

October 2011

Artistic direction, Baltic Youth Panel

performances for the Turner Prize, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

 

March 2011

W.A.L.K. (Walking, Art, Landskip, and Knowledge)

Installation, group exhibition and symposium, Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland

 

February 2011

Bird in Hand

Performance, Freud Museum, London

 

December 2010

Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Circumference of a Circle

Performance, part of Platform Northeast, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

September 2010

Making a Mess and Clearing Up

Video documentation of performance, Jerwood Drawing Prize Shortlist, Jerwood Space, Southwark, London, and touring

 

March 2010

Making a Mess and Clearing Up

Performance, Garage Gallery, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

November 2009

S.C.U.M.

Performance, collaboration with Carole Luby, at INX: Istanbul Newcastle Exchange, part of Wunderbar Festival, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

August - September 2009

With Or Without God

Group exhibition, L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, Clerkenwell, London

 

June 2009

Late Shift

Performance, collaboration with Carole Luby, Waygood Art Boutique, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

February 2009

Avant Guard

Performance, part of The Dream of Fluxus, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

Performance Instruction for Three Star A La Carte

Part of The Dream of Fluxus, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

 

December 2008

Bric-a-bracollage

Waygood Boutique Christmas Salon, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

October 2008

Labour Intensive

Performance, collaboration with Carole Luby, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn by the Sea, Teeside

Selected work

Newcastle/Gateshead Art Fair, Sage, Gateshead

 

July 2008

Drawings for a New Illustrated Reference Book

Waygood Art Boutique, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

May 2008

Touch Wood

Site specific installation, part of Waygood Wood, Castle Keep, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

March 2008

Stuff Happening

Performance, part of GalataPerform, Istanbul, Turkey

 

November - December 2007

Flotsam Fandango

Video animation, group exhibition, Serious Playtime, Gallery Glue, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

November 2005 - June 2006

Holy Smoke and Holy Shit

Two limited edition artist’s multiples, group exhibition, Multiplus III: Go Find the WMDs, Newcastle upon Tyne, touring; and Aquarium Gallery, London

 

March - June 2005

Gerbil's Guide to the Galaxy

Installation, Bookville and Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

March - May 2004

Soft Core

Limited edition artist's multiples, group exhibition, Multiplus Reloaded, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn by the Sea, Teesside; and Lowry Centre, Salford

 

May - June 2003

Recipe

Group exhibition, Resist: Protest Art, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

 

November 2002 to date

Shelter

Site specific installation, Holy Island, Northumberland

 

September 2001 - August 2002

Shack

Site specific installation, Holy Island, Northumberland

 

May - June 2001

Bad Hiding Place

Installation, collaboration with Matthias Schamp, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

October 2000

Thin Red Line

Group exhibition, Contained, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, part of VANE2000.

 

January 2000

Invitation to Kiss

Group exhibition, video and interactive installations, digital, photography, and video screenings, Generator, Mid-Wynd, Dundee

Underdog

Part of Live-Stock, Ram/fm, 72 hour audio event, The Arc, Stockton, Teesside

 

December 1999

Waygood Boutique

Group exhibition, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

October 1999

Underdog

Video installation, The Workhaus, Liverpool, NXN Film and Arts Festival, part of Tracey, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art

Bed of Roses

Installation, group exhibition, The Workhaus, Liverpool, NXN Film and Arts Festival, part of Tracey, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Shelter IV: Relocation

Serial site specific installation, The Chapterhouse, Blackfriars, Newcastle upon Tyne, part of VANE 99.

Shelter III: The Flood

Serial site specific installation, Polestar Studios, Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, part of VANE 99.

Re:Searchers

Group exhibition, Jesmond Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, part of VANE 99.

Underdog

Video installation / sound performance collaboration with Sam Hooper. Group exhibition, node 5+5, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

 

March 1999

Waygood Boutique

Group exhibition, VANE Export, Tensta Konsthal, Stockholm, Sweden.

Replay

Site specific installation, Childhood Memories Toy Museum, Tynemouth, North Tyneside, part of Hidden, commissioned by David Metcalf Associates and the Globe Gallery.

 

October 1998

Shelter II: The Haunting

Serial site specific installation, Polestar Studios, Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, part of VANE 98.

 

August 1998

Prints

Group exhibition, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, New South Wales, Australia

 

June 1998

Artists in Arms

Group exhibition, British Red Cross, touring: St David’s Hall, Cardiff; Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh; Royal Geographical Society, London

Shelter: Where Do We Draw the Line?

Serial site specific installation, Polestar Studios, Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

May 1998

Free as a Bird

Site specific installation, group exhibition, Fish Quay Festival, North Shields

Bed of Roses

Installation, group exhibition, Flower Power, Globe Gallery, North Shields.

 

March 1998

Hand

Isis Arts group exhibition for International Women’s Day, touring: Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend, North Tyneside; Woodhorn Colliery Museum, Ashington, Northumberland; Queensgate Art Gallery, Alnwick, Northumberland.

 

January 1998

Art for thePark

Group exhibition, Discovery Museum, Blandford House, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

July 1997

Stars in Their Eyes

Group performance, Gulbenkian Studio Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, commissioned by Northern Stage

 

October 1996

Artists Challenge The Armouries

Site intervention, in collaboration with Crystal Clear artists initiative, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds

 

September 1996

Transitional Goods

Site specific installation, group exhibition, Shop, Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, in collaboration with Blue Cowboys artists group

 

July - August 1996

Slippery Blisses

Site specific installation, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

June - July 1996

Psycho Soma

Site specific installation, group exhibition, On The Corner, Burdon House, Sunderland

 

March 1996

Towards A Place For Art: Works On Paper II

Group exhibition, Surikov Institute, Moscow, Russia

Our Natural History

Sculpture, group exhibition, Open Art ’95, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Teesside (joint first prize).

 

March 1995

Towards A Place For Art: Works On Paper I

Group exhibitions, Surikov Institute, Moscow, Russia

 

February - March 1995

Heart of the City

Site specific installation, group exhibition, Sale, Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, in collaboration with Blue Cowboys artists group

 

February 1995

Words

Group exhibition, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

 

November 1994

Putting My Foot In It

Sculpture, group exhibition, Open Art '94, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Teesside (second prize)

 

September - October 1994

Who We Are: Women 94

Group exhibition, Zone Photographic Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

September 1994

Hot House Cold Storage

Site specific installation, Isis Gallery, Melmerby Cumbria.

Other professional activities

2011 to date

Curator, Shelter Artists' Residencies, Holy Island, Northumberland

 

2003 to date

Freelance Artist, Education Team, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.

 

2006 to 2011

Academic Tutor and Visiting Lecturer, Foundation Studies in Art & Design, School of Arts, Design & Media, University of Sunderland

 

2003 - 2008

Member of steering and selection group, Platform, North East regional forum for experimental, live art and multidisciplinary practice.

 

2003 - 2007

Member of Programme Board, Waygood Gallery, High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

2002 - 2007

Member of Board of Directors, Waygood Gallery, High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

1998 - 2006

Senior Lecturer in Visual and Performing Arts, School of Arts, Design & Media, University of Sunderland

 

1990 - 1992

M.A. Fine Art (Distinction), University of Northumbria at Newcastle upon Tyne

 

1986 - 1988

Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education, University of Sunderland

 

1981 - 1982

Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic

 

1975 - 1977

B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic

 

1967 - 1968

Diploma in Art & Design, Central School of Art & Design, London