Events
A summary of awards, exhibitions and events can be found here.
Hot on the heels of INSPIRE, I'm excited to announce a new art trail and pop-up exhibition themed around Midsummer Night's Dream and the Summer Solstice in Carlisle City Centre.
This event will feature dozens of Cumbria-based emerging artists and esteemed Internationally exhibited painters, sculptors and printmakers.
Another successful PROSEED pop-up selling exhibition in a new gallery venue in Carlisle City Centre featuring a blend of new and established Cumbrian artists, printmakers, ceramicists and jewellery makers.
I'm honoured to have been invited to produce sculptural abstract artworks for the new cancer treatment centre at The Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, Cumbria.
I'm delighted to have been selected as a finalist in this year's Visual Art Open Emerging Artists Award 2020.
Following on the amazing support received and success of PROSEED 2020, I was delighted to create a 12 day pop-up art sale exhibition in Carlisle City Centre.
This event featured more than 60 artists including a number of notable National prize winning and Internationally exhibited painters, sculptors and printmakers.
Due to the life-altering events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant collapse of national art exhibitions, I wanted to find a way to safely exhibit artworks once more in the real world.
As lockdown measures began to be relaxed, an opportunity to open a pop-up exhibition on one of Carlisle's major trunk roads appeared and after a careful risk assessment I decided to invite other Cumbrian artists to partake in a new exhibition initiative. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and just the attitude we all need in these challenging times.
Upfront Cumbrian Art Open 2020
I feel privileged to have had three pieces accepted for this prestigious open competition and am delighted to have won a special Gallery Prize for this installation, 'Dusk to Dusk'. The piece was created from recycled decorating dust sheets with household paint, wood offcuts, charcoal and found objects.
I was privileged to have been selected to exhibit at this year's prestigious Summer Exhibition held in Grasmere, Cumbria which was attended by thousands of visitors.
West Walls NOW Exhibition 2019
West Walls Artists are one of the longest established artist organisations in Cumbria. I was especially proud to have been the creator of this exhibition at
Upfront Arts and which was the winner of the Carlisle Living Best Arts Initiative Award.
In the tradition of the 19th century Parisian Salon des Refusés, two of my artworks, declined for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, were at the Joseph Wales Studios, Margate from the 27th of July until the 8th of August 2019.
UPFRONT ARTS Open Exhibition 2019
Following the success of my winning entry, 'Palazzo di Mao' in 2018, this was my prize winning piece in the 2019 open exhibition.
MILE5T0NE Solo Exhibition 2018
Curated to celebrate my 50th birthday, this solo exhibition featured a body of
work spanning 30+ years, many of which had previously never been exhibited publicly.
Other featured work
A featured collection of artwork spanning three decades.