CV
Exhibitions | Awards | Work history | Formal training | NED courses
Awards
2010 Shortlisted for the Award for Best Use of Visual Art in
Healthcare
2010 Elected as a Brother of the ArtWorkers’ Guild
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
Public art
2012 forthcoming Glass and steel seed pods for the
National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas
2012 in progress Glass and steel
gates for Forge Valley Community School, Sheffield
2011 2 internal rooms - scultpure
projects for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital; mixed media
2009 ‘Spinal Accord’, 4.8 x 2.3 metres, glass and stainless steel sculpture
at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Bolsover Street main reception
desk; additional photographic giclée prints of glass details in lift
lobbies and consulting rooms
2006 ‘Ampersand River’, 2.5 x 1.15 metres, Copyright Licensing Agency
reception
Featured
2011 FT ‘How to Spend It’, 5 November, p44
2011 FT ‘How to Spend It’, 5 October, van der postings
online
2010 BBC Homes and Antiques November
pp32-39
2009 idfx Magazine November p21
2009 World of Interiors Gallery August round-up
2009 GAS Newsletter Vol. 20 Issue 4 Summer
2008 60-Second Interview CGS Newsletter Issue 27 March
2008 Crafts Magazine May/June pp16-19
2008 Design Arts June pp12-13
2008 Coutts London Jewellery Weekend Guide June pp12-13
Recent exhibitions
2011 October ‘Living with Glass’, Vessel Gallery, Kensington
2011 May ‘Oxford Arts Weeks’
2011 February ‘Heavenly Scent’, London: Glass Art Gallery
2010 November ‘Glas ... en Zo’, Eastern Netherlands: De Aventurijn
Kunstbemiddeling
2010 October Art in Woodstock, Woodstock, Oxon
2010 September Open House Weekend, London: ArtWorkers’ Guild
2010 September International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge: Dial Gallery
2010 April SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art), New York: Park
Lane Armoury
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
Work history
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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