CV
Exhibitions
| Awards | Work history
| Formal training | NED
courses
Recent exhibitions
2010
(March-April) 7 glass artists, Eastern Netherlands: De Aventurijn
Kunstbemiddeling
2010 (February) ‘Heavenly Scent’, London: Glass Art Gallery
2009 (November) CHASE Charity Mixed Media Exhibition & Auction, London: Royal
College of Art
2009 (November-December) ‘Reciclamadrid
project’,
Madrid:
Centro Comercial ModaShopping
2009 (October) ‘Art London’, London: Chelsea Hospital
2009
(July-August) ‘Painting in Light’ Solo show, London: Zest Gallery
2009 (July to September) Crafts
of Catalonia, Barcelona:
Fundació Centre del
Vidre
2009 (June) ‘Same Difference’, Cedar Arts, New York:
Corning
2009 (April) SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art), New
York:Park Lane
Armoury
2009 (March) ‘Glass Echoes 2’ Exhibition, The Crypt, St Pancras
Church, Bloomsbury
2009 (March) ‘Unpolished: exhibition of experimental glass jewellery’,
Contemporary Glass Society (online)
2008
(December) ‘Creative Jewelry With Glass’, Contemporary Art Glass Museum of
Alcorcon, Madrid
2008 (November) 'Autumn
colour in ceramics and glass', duo show, Koukan Gallery
2008 (September) 'iMAgine',
MA Final Show (UCA at Farnham)
2008 (June/July)
‘Glass Wear, ZeST Gallery
2008 (April)
‘Reflection in Action’, MA Interim Show (UCA at Farnham)
2007 (November)
‘BoneScape and other works’ Solo show (the Shed-and-a-Half Gallery,
Shoreditch)
2007 (August) ‘Glass
Echoes’ Exhibition by emerging glass artists (The Crypt, St Pancras Church)
2006 (July) ‘Crash
Cool’ Student show (the gallery at Morley
College)
2006 (May-July) Inspired by
... (V&A).
Awards
2008 Commended in the
Stevens Competition for Architectural Glass.
2006
Winner of the V&A Glass Department Award for the ‘Inspired by…’
competition for part-time adult learners
2005
Winner of the John
Davies Memorial Award for best
progress in decorated glass at the IGC
1967 - 70
Book editor at Longman (full time)
1971 - 79
Freelance editor and picture researcher for Weidenfeld & Nicolson and also for: Dent, Longman,
Ginn, Evans, Sphere and others
1980 - 84
Fiction reader for Penguin and Granada
1983 - 1999
Freelance features journalist
1987 - 89
Co-founder of a writing agency called Wiseguides which produced business literature using
direct setting
1988 - 89
British adviser for Houghton Mifflin in development of the software Correct Grammar
1989 - 90
Senior Research Officer for a British Library project at Middlesex Polytechnic leading to
the publication of a report on authorship and technology
1995 - 2000
Consultant Fellow on various educational projects on the use of IT in
primary and secondary education, in association with the Institute of
Education, DfES and Oracle Corporation
1990-2004
Board member of the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society
and the Copyright Licensing
Agency (Chairman 2001-2003)
Freelance projects throughout.
MA
in 3DD Glass (Distinction) at the University
for the Creative Arts at Farnham (2006-8)
Higher
National Certificate in Glass at Westminster
Adult Education Services (2005-6)
OCNWM
Diploma in the Techniques and Technology of Glass at the International Glass Centre
(IGC) in Brierley Hill (2004-5)
Part-time diploma course in Music and Information Technology, City University
(1985 - 86)
Diploma
in Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art (1966-7)
BA
Hons in English and Philosophy, Bristol
University
(1963-6)
Unfinished pre-diploma course in art and jewellery, Hornsey Art School
(1966)
2001
- 2003
Financial Awareness for Directors (in-house
ALCS training day run by Nigel Smith, Financial & Management Training
Consultancy)
Group
Facilitation Skills (3-day course run by the Tavistock Consultancy Service)
4
Executive Coaching sessions (Tavistock Consultancy Service)
Negotiation
Skills and Techniques (2-day course, run by the
Institute
of
Directors
)
The
Balanced Scorecard as a Management Tool (1-day course run by Organisational and
Personal Development Consultants)
Effective
Decision Making (tailor-made in-house directors’ training day for CLA run by
David Kearney, OPDC)
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