selected biography
COMMISSIONS / RESIDENCIES / ART PROJECTS
Markham Vale (2016/17) Art research project looking at the local ecology and disconnect between mining communities and their landscape. Public art landmark proposals created with community engagement.
Tomorrows Sea (2014/15) Public Installation on several sites for the Licco Project. Supported by NationalTrust , EA, Poole Borough Council, Wave Arts.
Ghost Orchard. (2012/13) Landscape sculpture. Stokeinteignhead. Devon. Supported by Arts Council.
'This is a steeple' (2013 ongoing). creating shared entrances for a Cornish village school and church, based on the old childrens rhyme and hand gestures 'this is a church, this is a steeple…'
Hazel Cloud. ‘if earth could grow’ Cockington Court. Torbay Council. 2011 Interactive Land art installation using 1000 Hazel poles and local red earth.
Heart Wood ‘pining for you’. Unlocked Project. Brownsea Island. National Trust. 2011 Creating a site specific response to the hidden history of the island trees.
Revealing the Hidden. Lead Public Artist. Weston Super Mare South Ward. North Somerset Local Authority. 2008-2011. Creation of Public Art Strategy for the South Ward. Overseeing and curating £250,000 Rhynes Arts Project working with 8 artists. Making of public art works for shopping parades.
Dragon Line Earth Sculpture and Amphitheatre. Creative Partnerships. Bredenbury School. Hereford 2010- 2011 Design and making of earthworks sculpture and landscape.
Frog Mill, Dartmoor. 2007- ongoing. Site artist/designer developing strategy and landscape design plans for 17 acres of meditation retreat land. Co-Leading ‘Sense of Place’ design retreat, 2010
Buddhafield Festival 2003-07, Lead Artist. Festival layout, making focal point artworks, devising large scale fire performance. Leading 14-person team of artists.
Earth Squid. Craftspace Touring. Paget Primary, Birmingham 2003-2005. Creating earthworks sculpture. From initial school consultation, through design workshops with children and parents, inset staff training, to final construction and on going maintenance.
Dancing Shadows. Pype Hayes Community Centre. Birmingham 2005. Making steel figures for entrance landmark. Working with pensioner groups, dancers and football teams.
Iron Man. Lacy Rd Children’s Home, Bristol 2004 Making and installing giant figure at Spike Island Sculpture studio with boys from the children’s home
EURO K4, Worcestershire LEA 2003 10 week Sculpture and Performance Art project working with young offenders and excluded kids across Worcestershire to build 9 foot tall figurative steel public artworks and fire sculptures.
Sunfield Special School 1999-2003 (also ongoing as visiting artist). Lead Artist. Developing 52 acres of school grounds as a sensory resource for young people with special and complex learning needs, mostly Autistic spectrum. Collaborating with dance artist Peppy Hills.
Giant’s Stitches. Milestone Special School, Gloucester, 2001-2003 Percent for Art project on major site development to create huge earth works sculpture. Workshops using dance, movement, and drawing to collect marks and patterns, which informed the land form, pathways and mosaics.
This is me. Redgrove Pupil Referral Unit 2002. 8 week Environmental Art and sculpture project with young people with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Rosehill Special School 2002. Multi media residency to create film and slide installation working with children with severe physical needs
Cardiff Bay Daisi, Devon. 2001. Torquay Community School residency with yr10 students to create huge earth drawing Installation
SPAEDA, 2001 Residency with yr6 students from 3 schools to create temporary environmental artworks and deliver public art study tour to Cardiff.
Art & Alchemy 2000 Running workshops in 5 primary schools creating an environmental art gallery in the trees as part of Worcester’s Millennium Celebrations. Beacons 1999.Creating landscape installations with 3 Worcestershire youth groups. Worcestershire ‘Skills on Show’ 1999. Environmental art workshops using willow.
Herschel Park. Slough. 2000. Sculpture trail and landscape installation created with 80 school children as a culmination of year long environmental art study.
‘Sight specific’. 1999. Kent Architecture Centre. ’To improve the visual literacy of Kent’s Young People’. Working with four secondary schools. Teaching, workshops, art & design projects, making environmental art works and building landscape installations. Collaboration with Digital Artist, Textile Artist and Architect.
RELATED WORK
Artist Blacksmith
West Monkton Forge, Somerset (1997-2000). Ran a forge producing contemporary ironwork for galleries/commission. Demonstrations and Workshops at schools and County Shows. Award winner Somerset County Show Blacksmith Competition 1997
Teaching
Oxfordshire College of Art and Design. Art Foundation Sculpture and life Drawing Tutor (2002)
Landscape Architect (1989 -1995)
Groundwork Leeds. Community landscape designer (1994–1995). Land & Marine Development. U.S.A. Landscape Design Consultant (1993) Donaldson Edwards Partnership (Glasgow). Landscape Architect. (91-93). ASH partnership (Glasgow) 1991 Islington Council. Schools Landscape Architect. (1989-1990).
Publications and Journals
First Findings (2005) A review of creative learning 2002-2004. Creative Partnerships.
Special Education Perspectives Vol.12 No.2 Innovation in the Arts.(Nov 2003)
Public Art Case Study Pack. Gloucestershire County Council (July 2003)
Gloss News (Autumn 2003) ‘Milestone School’s Giant stitches’. Lesley Greene
Artworks Review Publication (2002) . Fiona Godfrey
Breaking Boundaries (2002) The Architecture Centre. Eileen Adams .
Times Education (summer 2001) Curriculum special ‘Special needs’ Special Children (April 2001)
‘Sun Moves – the Arts and pupils with SLD’ Animated (summer 2000) ‘Punctuating Space’
Awards / Competitions
Clore Duffield/Tate Modern Artworks Award, 2002. Best working with schools award. Milestone school ‘Giant’s Stitches’ Earth Sculpture.
Dry Stone Wall Association ‘Pinnacle Award 2001’. Earth Sculpture Sunfield School.
Millennium Landmark (Sunday Times/Architecture Foundation) 1999 Joint winning entry. Stone & earth land sculpture proposal.
OTHER
Public liability insurance for £5 million. DBS checked. Chainsaw licence. Learning Through Landscapes Associate
