Born in Seaton Carew, County Durham
Lives and works in London and Spain
1974 – 1984 Shoe Designer
1984 – 1985 Modern Art Studies, ICA, London
1989 – 1990 Chelsea School of Art, London
1990 – 1991 Heatherleys School of Art, London
1991 – 1994 Byam Shaw School of Art – (BA Hons)
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Selected Solo Shows
2007
Atelier Gallery, Gaucin, Spain
Print Show, Mandalai, Koh Phanghan, Thailand
2006
New Paintings, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Small Paintings, Chateau de Bangkok, Thailand
2005
Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Solo Show, Cutlers Gardens, London
Works on Paper, Chateau de Bangkok, Thailand
2002-2003
Conflict and Resolution, Vertigo Gallery, Milan, Italy
Conflict and Resolution, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Galerie Ulrich Grimm, Magdeburg, Germany
2001
Hiscox Art Café, Great St Helen’s, London
Small Paintings, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
2000
Kienbaum Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Selected Paintings, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
1999
Kunst Handlung, Heidelberg, Germany
Recent Paintings, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
1998
Works on Paper, Chelsea Hotel, Chelsea, New York
1997-1998
Broken Music – New Paintings, Lamont Gallery, London
1996
Artist of the Day, Flowers East, London
Static Shimmer, Lamont Gallery, London
1995
Paintings, The Spitz, Spitalfields, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Sense of Place, curated by Philippa Beale, Bermondsey Project Space, London
Secret Postcard Auction, @CombatStress, Bankside Gallery, London
Royal Cambrian Art Academy Annual Open, Conwy, Wales
COLOUR, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2021
Aleph Contemporary, The Auction Collective, in aid of Access Art
Small is Beautiful, Hansard Studio, London
2020
Two Climate Change paintings and twenty-eight lockdown paintings – The River Series
2019
May/June: Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, ALIVE IN THE UNIVERSE, Co-curated by Caroline Wiseman and David Baldry – Invited Artists one minute films
Carte Blanche, Summer Exhibition, Chelsea Arts Club, Chelsea, London
2018
February: The Art House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. ALIVE IN THE UNIVERSE, film screenings and YouTube
June: Aldeburgh Festival, ALIVE IN THE UNIVERSE, Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, films screened
August: Aldeburgh Carnival Weekend, ALIVE IN THE UNIVERSE, Films screened
December: Four films screened at Bermondsey Project Space, Bermondsey, London
2017
Christmas Group Show, Chelsea Arts Club, London
Commission for Cazenove Capital Management, London
Group Exhibition, The Little Boltons, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2016
Autistica, Knapp Gallery, in conjunction with Deutsche Bank and FRIEZE
Commission for Cunard Queen Mary 2 of 7 paintings
Yale Radio Interview with Brainard Carey, New Haven, USA
Silent Auction, Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary, Aldeburgh
Group Show, Chester Square, London
Selected Paintings, Smith and Williamson, London
RCA Secret, Art Dubai, Dubai
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2015
The Collective, The House of St Barnabas, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, (1996 – 2015)
RCA Secret, Art Dubai, Dubai
The Botany Show’, Chelsea Arts Club, London
Artist’s in their Studios, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2014
Commission for the P&O BRITANNIA of 56 oil paintings
‘Things that do not breathe’, Chelsea Arts Club, London
An Alphabet of Actions, Goldsmiths College, London
2012
Napkin Installation, (Tracey Emin), Walpole Bay Hotel, Margate
Maun Homeopathy Project Appeal, (Botswana), London
2011
Sketchbook Project:
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, New York
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Spider House, Austin, Texas
Space Gallery, Portland, Oregan
The Granite Room, Atlanta, Georgia
The Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC
Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
Form/Space Atelier, Seattle
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Madrone Studios, San Francisco, CA
Hard Park Art Center, Chicago
Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Drawn Together, Siena Art Institute, Siena , Italy
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath, London
2010
Michael Landy Art Bin, South London Gallery, London
Charleston Art Auction, Lewes, East Sussex
Winter Exhibition, Gallery Violet, Dedham, Essex
2008
London Art Fair, Islington, London
Khulla Dhoka (Nepal), Royal Overseas League, London
SCOPE Art Fair, London
2007
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London,
London Arts Café, The Juggler, Hoxton, London
Group Installation, Art for Offices, London
artLONDON, Chelsea, London
2006
Galerie Ulrich Grimm, Magdeburg, Germany
Group Show, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Kunsthaus Katelhon, Mohnesee, Germany
London Arts Café, The Juggler, Hoxton, London
artLONDON, Chelsea, London
Charleston Art Auction, Lewes, East Sussex
Studio visit and Talk, London Arts Cafe, London
2005
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Summer Show, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Switch Art Library, Plan-Art, London
30 x 30, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
artLONDON, Chelsea, London
Charleston Art Auction, Lewes, East Sussex
2004
Paintings, Forum Galerie, Usingen, Germany
Art 2004, Business design Centre, Islington, London
Gallery Artists, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Piers Feetham Auction, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
30 x 30, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
artLONDON, Chelsea, London
Charleston Art Auction, Lewes, East Sussex
Lexicon Partners, Paternoster Square, London
War and Peace, Flowers Central, London
2003
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, Tate Britain, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
Paperwork, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Kunst Koln, Cologne, Germany
‘INDEPENDENCE’, South London Gallery, London
F-EST Weekend, Galleries in East London
artLONDON, Chelsea, London
30 x 30, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Charleston Art Auction, Lewes, East Sussex
‘Dream Work’ (Jane Gifford), Bracknell Gallery, Berkshire
‘INDEPENDENCE’, Christian Boltanski, South London Gallery, London
2002
The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
Bloomberg SPACE, (Cesare Pietroiusti), London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
‘Towns & Tones’, Forum Galerie, Usingen, Germany
Kunst Koln, Cologne, Germany
Art 2002, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
The Gallery, Municipal Hospital, Brunswick, Germany
Drawing, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
artLONDON, Chelsea, London
Charleston Art Auction, Lewes, East Sussex
Group Show, St Saviours House, London
2001
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
Spring Exhibition, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Hampshire
Art 2001, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
Schwetzingen Castle, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
Christie’s Auction, Paintings in Hospitals, London
Family Favourites, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Kunsthaus Katelhon, Mohnesee, Germany
Fine Art Calendar, Vertigo Graphics, Hoxton, London
30 x 30, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
2000
Silent Auction, New York Studio School, New York
Open House 2000, Hammerson, Park Lane, London
England 2000, Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt, Germany
Urban Heights, Vertigo Gallery, Hoxton, London
Art 2000, Business design Centre, Islington, London
Icollector.com, Rivington Gallery, Hoxton, London
Transformations, Lamont Gallery, London
New Paintings, Rivington Gallery, Hoxton, London
CD Cover for Meridian, (‘Music Myth’), London
1999
Silent Auction, New York Studio School, New York
Selected Artists, The Groucho Club, Soho, London
Art 1999, Business Design centre, Islington, London
‘Four British Artists’, Bacob, Brussels, Belgium
Summer Exhibition, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, Battersea, London
Summer Show, Schwetzingen Castle, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
Group Exhibition, Ko Raw Gallery, London
‘Two in One’, (two person show), South Square, London
Drawings, Rivington Gallery, Hoxton, London
Selected Artists, Bisley, London
1998
Triangle Artists, World Trade Center, New York
Absolute Secret, McKee Gallery, New York
Whitechapel Open, The Tannery, London
Art 1998, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
‘Follow Up 2’, Byam Shaw School of Art, London
London Business School, Regents Park, London
Phillips Auction, ‘Wellbeing Art’, London
‘Stirred not Shaken’, Lamont Gallery, London
Mencap Show, Cromwell Hospital, London
1997
Paintings, Clink Wharf Gallery, London
Schwetzingen Castle, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
Art 1997, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow, Scotland
‘ART’, Addison Wesley Longman, Harlow, Essex
Group Exhibition, Russell, Jones & Walker, London
10 Artists. ACA, London
1996
‘1997 Postcards’, Gallery Seven, Hong Kong
Whitechapel Open studios, East End, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
A Different Pursuit, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary art, London
Schwetzingen Castle, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
Affordable Art, Connaught Brown, London
‘Nexus’, Kunst Handlung, Heidelberg, Germany
1995
‘ART 100’, Hammerson, Park Lane, London
Walton Contemporary Art, Chelsea, London
Works on Paper, Candid Gallery, Islington, London
New Paintings, Westminster Gallery, London
1994
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
‘Fresh Art’, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London
Ben Uri Art Society, London
1993
11th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale,
Cleveland and Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
1991
Tate Gallery Acquisitions Sub-Committee with Sir Nicholas Serota