Born 1954 Devon

Living and working in Wales since 1994

Education

1973-76 B.A. Fine Art, Gloucestershire College of Art & Design    

1972-73 Foundation - Torquay   

Public Commissions

2014 Theydon Bois, earthwork, paths and planting next to M11, for The Woodland Trust

2013 Westonbirt Arboretum, for the Forestry Commission – ‘2,000 Year Old Lime Tree’

2012 Weymouth, Arts Council of England (Cultural Olympiad) & Dorset CC - ‘Jurassic Stones’

2009-10 Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

2007-08 Conwy Estuary Cycle Path, series of commissions

2006 Welsh government, Senedd, Cardiff - 'Meeting Place'

2006 Lead Artist, Riverside Park, Newport, with McGregor Smith Landscape Architects

2006 Busan Biennale, Korea.  ‘Bright Ground – Hollow Earth’

2004 Earthwork, Sustrans, Wansbeck, Northumberland - 'Thinking of Water' 

2004 The Open University Library, Milton Keynes - 'We Walk Our Own Path'

2004 Leicester, Cultural Mapping – ‘Path’

2002 Sustrans, Spen Valley cycle path, Yorkshire - 'Lines of Desire'

2002 Wolverhampton - 'We Live Between Water and Sky'

2002 Art Sella, Italy - 'Sentiero scintillante’

2000 Commission for my Local Community Council (Painscastle) - 'Begwyns'

1999 St. Davids, Pembrokeshire – ‘St Non’s Stones’

1999 Wrexham - 'Two Rivers'

1999 Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham - Roof Garden

1999 Millennium Coastal Park, Llanelli - 'Walking With the Sea'

1996 West Dorset Hospital, Dorchester, Dorset - 'Open Sky, Curving Stone'

1995 Taunton and Somerset Hospital

1994 2nd Seven Crossing, Gateway to Wales (unrealised proposal), with Nicholas Pearson Assoc.

1994 Bourne Wood, Lincolnshire - 'Entrance'

1993 Manchester Airport T2 - 'Meeting Ground'

1992 Granite Symposium/commission, Plouguerneau, France - 'To the Source'

1991 Symposium/commission Petange, Luxembourg - 'Silent Steel'

1990 Fukuoka Museum Japan, for 'British Art Now' - 'Passing Though No Man's Land'

1989 Consett to Sunderland Cycle Path, Sustrans/Sculpture North Path - 'Kyo Undercurrent'

1982-86 Gateshead M.B.C. - 'Bottle Bank'

Solo Exhibition

2022 Grizedale Forest Gallery, ‘Being Here’

1991 Bede Gallery, Jarrow,  accompanying  publication – ‘A Space for Dreaming’

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 ‘Without Borders’, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Drawing

2017 Out of Nature, Newport House, Herefordshire. ‘Birch Dome’ & ‘Bonfire’

2016 Garden of Earthly Delights, tactile BOSCH, Cardiff Contemporary – ‘For the Listening’

2016 ‘Nonarchy’, Un Deg Un, Wrexham ‘Dominant Species’ and Cardiff ‘From the Hill to the Tap’

2014 ‘Art from the Land’, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne

2012 ‘Disegno’ sculptors’ drawings, MOMA Cymru, Wales, Machynlleth

2010 ‘Earthscapes' Sherborne House Arts, Proposal for Weymouth Relief Road

2009 Knucklas Castle - ‘Burrow’      

2007 'Parklife' Penpont, Brecon – ‘See the Light’

2003 'Explorations', National Botanic Gardens of Wales - 'We Live Between Four Walls' 

2001 ‘Sculpture in the Wild’, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire –‘Through the Air 2’

1997 'Sculpture in the Park' Ebbw Vale - 'Through the Air'

1997 Gate Foundation, Amsterdam (follow up to symposium in Cuba) – ‘Seven Stones’

1995 'British Abstract Art, Part 2', Flowers East, London

1988 '30 Years of British Sculpture' Rouen, France - 'Gatehouse'

1985 'One per cent' exhibition - Levitt Bernstein Architects

1985 Sculpture and Architecture - Restoring the Partnership' exhibition - Welsh Sculpture Trust/Building Centre Trust 

1984 'The Sculpture Show' Hayward/Serpentine, London; Royal Festival Hall - 'Passage Paving’

1982 Spectro Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

1981 First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne - 'Hollow Hill'

Residencies     

2014 Three short ‘Crossings’ residencies, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne – ‘A River and a Tree’

1994 Kings Wood, Nr. Canterbury, Stour Valley Arts & Forestry Commission

1991-92 Artists Exchange Residency, Weimar, Germany – ’50 Years of Falling Leaves’

1980-81 Resident Sculptor at 'Birrigai' outdoor school Australia –‘Birrigai’

1977-78 Resident Sculptor, Grizedale Forest (also: 1982, '88 &'91)

Selected Workshops/Artist in Schools Projects

2014 & 16 Arts Alive Wales ‘Portfolio’ workshops

2008, 9&11 Master Class, Sydney Nolan Trust, Sculpture Programme

2002 Leicester, various schools

1992 Ashley School, South Shields

1980/87 Workshops at art schools in Australia  

1982-83 Blaydon Comprehensive, Gateshead, Northern Arts

Symposiums

2008 International Artists workshop, the Sidney Nolan Trust, Sculpture Programme

1997 International Artists Workshop, (Triangle), Cuba – ‘Seven Stones’

1995 Symposium/ Commission Petange, Luxembourg – ‘Silent Steel’

1992 Granite Symposium, Plouguerneau, France – ‘To the Source’

1992 Krakamarken Nature Sculpture Park, Denmark

1991 ‘New Forms in Willow’ Symposium (Projects Environment) – ‘Willow Walk’

Selected Workshops/Artist in Schools Projects

2014 & 16 Arts Alive Wales ‘Portfolio’ workshops

2008/9 & 11 Master Class, Sydney Nolan Trust, Sculpture Programme

2002 Leicester, various schools

1992 Ashley School, South Shields

1980/87 Workshops at art schools in Australia  

1982-83 Blaydon Comprehensive, Gateshead, Northern Arts

Awards

2000 CPRW Rural Wales Award, for 'Walking with the Sea', Llanelli 

1996 RSA Art and Architecture Award, for West Dorset Hospital commission 

1992 Northern Electric Art Award - Environmental Art

1990 Northern Arts Bursary

Selected articles, catalogues and books

Being Here Exhibition - Sam Picket, Corridor 8, 2022, Being Here Article

Groundbreaking, the artist in the changing landscape - Cywaith Cymru, Seren, 2005

Cultural Mapping - Leicester, 2005

Ecological Aesthetics, Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice – Herman Prigann/Heike Strelow, Birkhauser, Switzerland, 2004

Nature, Art, Paysage – Gilles Krakamarken – Land Art as Process, Jorn Ronnau, Denmark, 2001

A. Tiberghien - Actes Sud, France, 2001

Arte Sella - 2000, Borgo, Italy

Terra Incognita – Images of Australia – School of Art UWA, Aberystwyth, 2000

British Abstract Art, Part 2 – Flowers East, 1994

A Space for Dreaming – A Different Reality, Richard Harris - Bede Gallery, Jarrow 1991 (monograph) ISBN: 0 9518223 0 6

30 Years of British Sculpture – Association des Conservateurs de Haute-Normandie, 1988

A Sense of Place – Ceolfrith Press No.73, 1984

Art Within Reach - Deanna Petherbridge, Art Monthly/Thames and Hudson, 1984

The Sculpture Show – Arts Council, 1983

Presences of Nature – Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, 1982

Art and Australia, ‘A hidden sculpture’ - T. Measham, Autumn 1982

AN, Two years in Australia - November 1982

Aspects, number 7 - 1979