Forthcoming projects
2021 New work commissioned by Our Big Picture at Grimsby Minster and Hull Minster.
Following ACE funded research in and around the Humber, resulting work will be shown at both Grimsby and Hull Minsters . This will include some existing new work (Unknown Women & Unknown Men) and several new works currently in development.
Solo exhibitions
2018-19 ‘Magnetic Atlas’ Comar, Isle of Mull, Scotland
2017 Magnetic Atlas Grimsby Minster, North Lincolnshire, UK
2016 Magnetic Atlas SIA Gallery Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield UK
2013-14 Magnetic Atlas St Johns Church, 20-21 Visual arts Centre North Lincolnshire UK
Three film installations, Huldra, Ordinalia, and The Sleeper Falls and photographic series Charged Vessels and Infinite Bodies
2011 ‘The Golem’ and ‘Carnival of Souls’
Illuminating York festival. Films shown during the hours of darkness in Bar Lane Gallery window York UK
2006 Photographic prints The Workstation, Sheffield.
2005 Resurrection Stories
3 screen film and Installation commissioned by Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK
2004 ‘States of Matter’
Film; ‘The Almond Tree’ and photographic series ‘States of Matter’ Folly Gallery, Lancaster UK
2003 ‘The Almond Tree’ photographic series and Recent Work MAC Birmingham UK
2003 Photofolio Salts Mill, Saltaire
2001 ‘Magic, Murder and the Weather’
Installation at Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds, and touring to;
2001 Ferens Art Gallery Hull UK Nov – Dec
1999 Photo Works 1989-1999 The Heart Gallery, Bastille, Paris.
1998 ‘Vessel’ Installation
Photo 98 Commission, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.
1997 The Twelve Keys series Photographic series Workstation Sheffield UK
1997 Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds UK
1996 Worcester City Art Gallery UK
1996 University of Central England, Birmingham UK
1995 ‘The Twelve Keys’ Installation and other works, Crossley Gallery Dean Clough, Halifax UK
1994 ‘Green Earth’s End
Installation commissioned by Walsall Art Gallery and touring to;
1994 Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery.
1993 ‘Mortal Remains’ Metro Gallery Derby UK
1992 Streetlevel, Glasgow Scotland
1992 Zone Gallery Newcastle UK
1992 Mortal Remains
Commissioned photographic work for 3 gallery spaces including installation ‘Three Cornered House’ Site Gallery Sheffield UK and tour;
1989 ‘Feeding the Eye’ Chapter Arts, Cardiff
1989 Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge UK
Group Shows
2018 ‘Stars‘ Frontier Arts at Athens School of Fine Arts
2018 The Hidden Heroine , East London Photomonth The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, London
2016 Casablanca Biennale, October, Huldra screening, Casablanca, Morocco.
2016 ‘Engagement and Entrapment’, Huldra screening, Seoul, South Korea
2015 Uncertain States East London Photomonth Festival Pavilion, Mile end, London
2015 Engagement and Entrapment Zmart Gallery, Cyprus
2014 Uncertain States Fifth Annual Exhibition UCS 2014 Bank Gallery, Cass Institute, Whitechapel, London
2014 PoetryFilm Equinox Film screening The Sleeper Falls screened on 26th September, BFI/Framework, London as part of PoetryFilm programme curated by Malgorzata Kitowski
2013 8th Annual Global Video Art Sattal, Utterkhand Screening of Carnival of Souls as part of festival
2012 Platform 0 Film Festival International festival Espacio Enter, Spain – screening of Carnival of souls
2012 Night of the Black Moon Evening of film projection, Kingsland Estate London, Shoreditch fringe festival/Studio 75
2010 Picturing Science Riverside gallery Twickenham, December 4th till 26th February 2011
2010 From the Darkness; ‘Light in Contemporary Art’ Brighton Fringe Festival/Mascalls Gallery, St Peters church, Brighton
2009 Going Underground Village Underground, Shoreditch London,
2008 Valley of Stone work by 5 commissioned artists. ‘Hineingrabe’ screened at Horse and Bamboo Theatre
2008 ‘Through the Lens’ Royal West of England Academy show, Bristol
2006 Arles Festival Projections evening event July 6th.
2003-4 ‘Truth and Beauty’ touring to Lisbon and Porto, Portugal, Nottingham, Derby UK
2003 ‘Starting a Collection’ Art First Cork Street, London
2003 Group Show Hofer Gallery, Museum St, London
2002-3 ‘Truth and Beauty’ TwoTen Wellcome Trust Gallery London
2002 ‘Surface’ Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
2000 Group show Heart Gallery, Bastille, Paris
1996 ‘Touched By Light’ Iris Touring Show, M.A.C. Birmingham and Watershed, Bristol.
1996 ‘Quarterlight’ Window installation , Paternoster Row, Sheffield UK
1994 London Contemporary Art Fair
1994 Signals; Womens Photography Festival Stoke UK
1994 ‘Catalyst’ Installation in St Georges Chapel Sheffield Cathedral UK
1994 ‘Beyond the Beyond’, Cartwright Hall, Bradford.
1993 A Cinema of Stills Ikon Touring Programme, Birmingham.
1992 I.C.I Fox Talbot Awards, National Museum of Photography, Film,and Television, Bradford.
1992 ‘Internationales de la Photographie d’Aries’. Mai de la Photo, Reims, France.
1991 Still Lives Special Photographers Company, London
1991 Flora Photographica Vancouver Art Gallery and touring; New York Library, Montreal Museum of Modern Art etc.
1989 Portfolio Room, Photographers’ Gallery, London
1989 New Evidence Untitled Gallery & touring
1989 Image and Imagination Untitled Gallery Sheffield and touring
1987 Schwitters Centenary Wreath Abbot Hall Gallery, Cumbria
Awards
2018 ‘Making Ways’ ACE funded initiative based in SheffieldProduction grant
2017 Our Big Picture R&D grant to for development of work for Grimsby Minster
2017 Making Ways ACE funded Sheffield based R&D grant for new arts projects
2013 Arts Council of England production grant for Magnetic Atlas
2011 Arts Council of England Research and Development award for forthcoming show at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe UK
2011 Research grant from The Bakken Museum and Library of Electricity, Minneapolis USA
2006 Arts Council of England Research and development award for Bakken Residency
2004 Arts Council of England production award
2002 Yorkshire Arts Research and Development award
2001 Yorkshire Arts ‘Showing’ award for publication
2000 Year of the Artist Research and Development award
1998 Photo 98 Regional Commission
1995 Individual production award from Yorkshire and Humberside Arts
1991 Individual production award from Yorkshire Arts
1989 Ilford prize
Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Wellcome Trust, London
East Midlands Arts,
Mead Collection, University of Warwick
University of Nottingham, Djanogly Gallery collection, Nottingham
University of York St John, York
West Midland Arts
Hertfordshire County Council,
Leicestershire County Council
Humberside County Council
University of Staffordshire
Comar, An Tobar, Isle of Mull Scotland
Selected projects and commissions
2008 -9 ‘Valley of Stone’ commission Run in partnership with Horse and Bamboo Theatre company. New film work ‘Hineingrabe’ shown at theatre along with photographic project ‘Rural Rossendale’, Waterfoot UK.
September to October 2006
Residency at The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, USA. Worked with the collection of books and artifacts. The resulting work ‘Charged Vessels and Infinite Bodies’ can be seen at 20-21 Visual arts Centre in October this year
Spring 2005 ‘Bluebeards Castle’
Commissioned photographic work for Opera North’s production of Bluebeard’s castle.
Shown in the Leeds City Hall during the Opera’s performances and images featured in the opera programme.
Commissioned cover image for new David Almond novel ‘Nesting’ published in May 2013