Timeline

1954

Born Essex

1973 - 1977

Studied at Bath Academy of Art

1979

Worked in conservation of 13th Century Sculpture at Wells Cathedral

1982 - 1989

Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture at Brighton Polytechnic

1993

Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London

1999 - 2005

Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts

2003 - 2005

Member of the design team for the new education building, Eden Project

British Embassy, Dublin

British Council

Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol

Public Collections

Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

St George’s Hospital, London

Southwark Cathedral

British Museum

Said Business School, Oxford

Ruwnzori Sculpture Foundation

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust, West Sussex

Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham

Derby Arboretum

Creasy Collection of Contemporary Art, Salisbury

Oxfordshire County Council

Leeds City Art Galleries

Lincoln City Council

Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust

National Trust Foundation for Art

University of Nottingham

Nottinghamshire City Council

University of Tasmania

Tate Gallery, London

Ulster Museum, Belfast

Contemporary Art Society, London

Oggleshausen, Germany

Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place, Sussex

Newbury Town Council

Awards and Residencies

2010 Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Exeter University

2009 Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters, York St John University

2007 Residency on Lolui Island, Uganda

2006 Winner of the Marsh Award for Public Sculpture Give and Take

2004 Invited Artist, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

1999 Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Arts, University of Plymouth

1994 Artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania and Australian lecture tour; aided by British Council travel award

1986 – 87 New Milestones project with the assistance of Common Ground

1980 Won Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship to study marble carving in Italy

Commissions

Cambridge City Council

Cardiff University

Dartington Hall Trust

Devon County Council

East Sussex County Council

Eden Project

Forestry Commission

Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

Jerwood Sculpture Park

London Docklands Development Corporation and Conran Restaurants

Lothian Regional Council, LEEL, Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust

Manchester City Council

Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council

National Trust

Newcastle City Council, Silverlink Properties

University of Warwick, Coventry