Timeline

1996

Delfina Studio Trust Award

prince of Wales Bursary Award, The British School at Athens,

1997

Prize Winner, Discerning Eye, Mall galleries, london

2003

First Prize, Millfield Open

2005

the Mullen Prize, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibtion

2006

Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Fellowship Award, London

2008

Federation of british Artists Choice, Threqadneedle price

2013

Elected member of the Royal Academy

Elected Honorary Fellow, Falmouth School of Art

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of british Artists

Attained his BA (Hons) from North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the UK

Studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam

Undertook his second MA at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London

Awarded a scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School in the USA

Received a fellowship to attend the Creative Glass Centre of America

Received invitations to teach and demonstrate at The Glass Furnace in Turkey, Fraunau Glass Summer School in Germany, University of Hawaii, Palomar College in San Diego, High Wycombe and Wrexham Colleges in the UK, as well as the University of South Australia and the Sydney College of the Arts