Bio

2008 Assistant Lecturer, Visual Arts Practice, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland.

2007 Artist-in-Residence Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, UK.

2007 The Arts Catalyst, collaborative project with Mulberry School for Girls, London UK “The Universe Gallery”.

2006 Arts Council England Artist Fellowship at the Space Science Lab, University of California Berkeley, USA.

2006 Artist in Residence at Great Northern Way, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

2005 Sound and Vision Thematic Residency at The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.

2004 Guest Artist at Duende Studios, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2001-2004 Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking and New Media Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. UK.

2001 Sabbatical Leave (University of Wolverhampton funded)

1993-2001 Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking University of Wolverhampton, UK.

2001-2003 University of Westminster MA Hypermedia Studies
1991 Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico
1986 - 1991 University of Edinburgh MA Fine Art
1988 - 1989 University of Pennsylvania

PRESENTATIONS

You and Your Work
The Cube Cinema, Bristol UK 2007
Performance of “Satellite Stories” for evening of performance, installation and apple fiesta.

Satellite Stories (one-person show)
Dartington Gallery 1 - 7 October 2007. Open Studio Workshop for the week of International Sputnik Day.

Earth: World Urban Festival 2006
Recording studio installation for spontaneous storytelling through projection of Google Earth and live soundtrack with accompanying collaging of BC Transit bus with surplus vinyl transit posters.

Canada Day Art Market
Organised by Blim and Terminus 1526.ca, we sold visas and remnants from the World Urban Festival
Blim, Vancouver, Canada 1 July 2006.

The Satellite Investigations
Citr Radio 109.1 fm, a series of four shows remixing conversations with people from the University of British Columbia who work with satellites. Vancouver, Canada June 2006.

Soundscapes
Improvisation around dream recordings “Alarm clocks kill dreams”, Coop Radio 102.9, Vancouver, Canada May 3 2006

Memelab
Performance of dream recordings “Alarm clocks kill dreams”, Vancouver, Canada April 14 2006

This City Is A Radio
“Mountain Therapy” and interview for audio art project, copresented by PAVED Arts and CFCR fm in Saskatoon, Canada March 27 - April 14 2006

Interactive Futures 06 (Victoria Film Festival)
Remix of conference at Open Space, Victoria

Impakt Online 2006
Web-based work connecting satellite networks and the Internet. With Bureau of Inverse Technology ‘Ooz’ and Franz Alken ‘Superconsumers’.

Radio 90
3 and 10 May 2005, two seven hour performances on Radio 90 from Banff, Canada with invited guests.

Space Van Race
17 December 2004 Duende Studio Rotterdam as party of group show ‘Free Communism’ with Jeroen Offerman’s ‘Soupe’ and Angelo Ferriera de Sousa’s ‘Ducks’.

Live PA-Passive/Aggressive
12 September 2004 New Forms Festival studio Vancouver, open workshop jam, pre-festival residency.

Tea with Live Jam
27 June 2004 Duende studio Rotterdam tea party recording with guests followed by live recording jam.

Version_Net
Chicago festival Version 04 15th April-1st May 2004
Website ‘breakingthesurface.net selected Web-based art project for Version-Net, including The Bomb Project, Joy Garnett; Make your Choice, Nino Rodriguez; minimal garden Holger Lippmann

Breaking the Surface (one-person show)
Plymouth Arts Centre 23 August - 22 September 2002. Video installation, bookworks and online projects.

Sea
Wolverhampton Art Gallery 9 februay - 13 April 2002
Video installation S173. Including artists Dorothy Cross,Tania Kovats, Mike Marshall.

New Work
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield 2 September-15 October 2000
Video projection An Earlier Mission. Including artists Marion Coutts, Jerone Offerman, Tomoya Magunuchi

As it is
The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 26 July-10 September 2000
Commission for three screen video projection MD902. Including artists Nathan Coley, Frances Hegarty, Richard Wentworth

VIVIDNOW
The Big Peg, Birmingham 8 June 2000
Bookwork A Guide to Helicopters as sound and video installation. Including artists Ravi Deepres, Jo Roberts and Mo White

Boxing Gear
B16 Gallery, Birmingham curated by Nick Crowe 6-30 April 2000
Bookworks Airshow books 1-5 and video installation Chrysalidding. With artists Ravi Deepres, Lisa Meyer, Andrew Woodhead

AtOMSK
Cambridge Darkroom Gallery 8 April 2000
Video projection An Earlier Mission and Omsk DJ. Including performance by Annis Joslin and Grace Surman and films by Richard Kennworthy and Steven Eastwood

Revolution
International Convention Centre, Birmingham 2nd and 3rd January 2000
Commission for new work, bookworks Airshow books 1-5, four screen video projection Chrysalid and an edition of 800 postcards. Including artists and arts organisations Colin Pearce, Clare Carter and Stan’s Cafe

Xn-Books, Multiples and Easy Living
B16 Gallery, Birmingham curated by Melanie Powers and Simon Webb 2-19 Dec 1999
Bookwork A Guide to Helicopters. Including artists Jo Kirk, Nigel Prince, Torsten Lauschmann

Messages
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 18 September-5 December, Kuppelhalle der Dresdner Bank, Leipzig 9 November-3 December 1999, Goethe Institute New York 15 December- 29 January 2000.
An exchange exhibition of postcards . Including artists Sean O’Keefe, Jean Vaudeau, Olaf Wegewitz

Sassy Shorts
Lighthouse, Wolverhampton December 1998
16mm films Observatories I-IV, Space/Earth and Tiff. A presentation of short films by practitioners in the region.

Robert Horne Printmaking Exhibition
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery May-July 1997, Shire Hall Gallery Stafford February-April 1998, The City Gallery Leicester April-May 1998, mac Birmingham September-November 1998, Oddfellows Gallery Kendal September-October 1999
Work produced on funded residencies at Lowick House Print Workshop Cumbria. Large monoprints Space and Two Telescopes. Including artists Chris Orr, Dale Devreux Barker and Coo Geller

9 x 9 x 9
Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig 12 Nov-3 Dec 1996, Lanchester Gallery Coventry 4-27 March 1998. A series of nine small lithographs. Including artists Nigel Prince, Karen Trusselle, Ted Allen

Two Telescopes (one-person show)
The Bond Gallery Birmingham 4 - 24 February 1997. Large scale monoprints and drawings.

Joanna Griffin (one-person show)
Galeria del Grabado de Chile, Santiago, Chile 9 - 24 April 1996. Lithographs and digital prints.

Receiving the Sky (one-person show)
Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery October 1993. Drawings.

AWARDS

Arts Council of England Artist Fellowship October-February 2006/7
At the Space Science Lab, University of California Berkeley

South West Arts Professional Development Grant March-June 2006
To fund residency at University of British Columbia

The Banff Centre, Canada, Sound and Vision Residency April-May 2005

British Council 2004
Travel award to present at International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Print Fund award.

University of Southampton Staff Award 2002
To produce publication Breaking The Surface with essay by Claire Doherty

Arts and Humanities Research Board 2002
Small Award to investigate the oddity of submarines through fine art video and new media

University of Wolverhampton Sabbatical 2000/1
Paid Sabbatical leave to research new work around submarines July - February 2000/1

West Midlands Arts Creative Ambition Award 2000
For travel and materials to support Sabbatical research

West Midlands Arts Creative Ambition Award 1999
To develop new directions in work based on previous printmaking and filmmaking. In conjunction with mentoring from Claire Doherty through the Artists Professional Development Scheme

Production Bursary from Vivid (Birmingham Centre for Media Arts)1998
To produce a bookwork. The Centre provided photographic and moving image facilities

National Lottery Arts for Everyone 1997
Funding for the Birmingham Printworkshop’s education programme part of which allowed me to develop collotype printing.

Lowick House Print Workshop Residency 1996
A one month funded residency to make large scale prints

West Midlands Arts Research and Development Award (Film and Video)
To make a short 16mm black and white film

University of Wolverhampton Research Award 1996
To visit the European Southern Observatories in Chile as part of a research project

International Visual Artists Exchange: Chile 1996
To travel to Chile for a month for a solo exhibition and to make new work at the Taller 99 printworkshop in Santiago.

British Council Leipzig, Birmingham City Council, University of Wolverhampton 1995
To participate in an international collotype workshop resulting in an editioned portfolio.

Andrew Grant Scholarship, Hope Scott Trust Award, Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Charitable Trust, 1990 Tamarind Institute Scholarship to study lithography at Tamarind Institute, Univ of New Mexico.

GUEST LECTURES

Café Scientifique, The Arts Club St Ives 8 August 2007

Dartington College of Arts Guest Lecture 2 May 2007

Space Sciences Lab Fellowship seminar, UC Berkeley, California 13 November 2006

University of British Columbia, Art History and Visual Arts department 2 March 2006

Capilano College, Vancouver Studio Art Guest Lecture 22 November 2005

New Forms Festival ECOSYSTEMS conference presenter “A Connection to a Remote Place” 22 September 2005

Impakt Festival for audio-visual arts Utrecht NL CouchClub speaker 28th October 2004

International Film Festival Rotterdam to introduce film Feathered Water 23rd January 2004.

Imperial War Museum, “Alternative Histories of Modern Conflict:Artists in the Archive” 21st June 2003.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery “Sea Beasts and Submarines” 7th March 2002.

Worcester Museum and Art Gallery “Artist’s Talk”10th November 1993.

Chelsea College of Art and design “Artists Talk” 21st January 1993.

FILM SCREENINGS of Feathered Water

Transat Video, Caen France November 2004
VideoIn, Vancouver 26th August 2004
Cinematique, Brighton 18th March 2004
International Film Festival of Rotterdam 21st Jan – 1st Feb 2004
15th Onion City Film Festival, Chicago 12th - 14th September 2003
The Imperial War Museum “Alternative Histories of Modern Conflict”,21- 22 June 2003
Lux Open 2003 at the Royal College of Art, London 24-27th April 2003

CATALOGUES AND OTHER PRINTED WORKS

Breaking the Surface Booklet with essay by Claire Doherty 2002
As it is Catalogue with essays on each artist published by Ikon Gallery 2000
New Work Fold out leaflet produced by Mappin Art Gallery 2000
Messages Catalogue , Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery with essay by Tessa Sidey 1999
9 x 9 x 9 Fold out catalogue produced by Lanchester Gallery 1998
Collotypes from Leipzig Catalogue”Lichtdruck?Lichtdruck! published by Lichtdruck-Kunst Leipzig
9 x 9 x 9 Catalogue published for Leipzig exhibition with essay by Christine Arnold 1996

REVIEWS OF WORK

“Run Silent, Run Deep” Evening Herald 28 August 2002
Ben Sadler “Sea and My Generation” Fused Issue 10 February 2002
David Vincent “Waterworks…” Express and Star 2 March 2002
Lynn MacRitchie “Private Lives on Public View” article on as it is at Ikon Gallery with photograph of Chrysalidding. Financial Times August 8 2000 p12
Anette Rubery “Urban Landscapes” Metro July 25 2000
“Grabados Ingleses” El Mercurio April 13 1996 p70

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Cultural Politics “Breaking the Surface” August 2005
Printmaking Today ”A Return Exhibition from Leipzig” co-written with Christa Muller Autumn 1997
Printmaking Today “Collotype in Leipzig” Spring 1996
Artists Newsletter “The Philadelphia Story: Public Art in Philadelphia” March 1991