Biography
Born 5 July 1976, Rugby, UK
1995-1999 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1994-1995 BTEC Diploma Art and Design, Calderdale College, Halifax
Solo exhibitions
2015
Invisible Cities, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Acts of Making, The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Invisible Cities, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2013
Sad Bones, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Flicker, Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, UK
2012
Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
2011
To be forever known, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, UK
2010
Scion, Beacon Art Project, Barrington Court, Somerset, UK
Solo presentation at Open Space- Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2009
Unseen By All But Me Alone, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, England
2008
Over the Teacups, solo show M R Fricke, Berlin
2007
Prickings, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, and Fabrica, Brighton in 2006
2006
The Property of Two Gentlemen, Firstsite, Colchester
2005
Domestic Landscapes, International 3, Manchester
Selected group exhibitions
2016
Innsbruck International, Innsbruck, Austria
Objects Relations, Baltic 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2014
LUX, Rothbury, Northumberland, UK
2013
Tip of the Iceberg, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Masterstrokes: Great Paintings from York Art Gallery, The Collection & Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
2012
Transformations, Smiths Row, Bury St. Edmunds, UK
Wildness Between Lines, Leeds College of Art, Leeds
2011
From Trash to Treasure, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Business Collectors Network, Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Being Lost, Rouge Project Space, Manchester, UK
Personal Tempest, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria
ROTATE, Contemporary Arts Society & Shortlist Media, London
Cult of the Difficult, Cass Gallery, London
Alchemy Fundiaco Joan Miro, Barcelona Spain
Personal Tempest, New Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
The Armory Show 2011, with Workplace Gallery, New York
2010
NADA Art Fair, Miami, USA with Workplace Gallery
Beyond Pattern, DLI Museum, Durham, UK
New Prints from Northern Print, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK
Walls are talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Catherine Bertola Pauline Kraneis, M R Fricke, Berlin
Unravelling the Manor House, Preston Manor, Brighton, UK
2009
Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection,The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK
Wanderwall, Temple Newsam, Leeds, UK
Can't Forget What I Don't Remember, Lausanne, Switzerland
Beyond Pattern, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newton Wales
Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, England
2008
The Intertwining Line, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Beautifully Crafted, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
TOMORROW THE FUTURE, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
The Enchanted Moment, Baltic, Gateshead
Kingfisher Tales, Union, London
Shake Before Using, Artium, Vitoria Gastiez, Spain
2007
Out of the Ordinary, V&A Museum, London
Unpicked and Dismantled, Kaunas Art Biennale, Kaunas, Lithuania
Preview, M R Fricke, Berlin
Isobar, Fieldgate Gallery, London
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and tour
Opposite of Vertigo, Drawing Room, London/Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan
Moved, Workplace Gallery Gateshead
Metteurs en Scène, The Embassy, Edinburgh
The End Begins, The Hospital, London
Extreme Crafts, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
Lost, Found and Imagined, 28 David's Road, London
2006
Fine and Fashionable, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
No Place Like Home, Beacon Art Project, Bridge Farm, Bicker
Blue Star Red Wedge, Glasgow International, Glasgow
2005
PILOT 2, Farmiloes Building, London
Zoo Art Fair, London with Workplace Gallery
Imagine a World…, Barge House, London
2004
Floral Habitat, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
Shrinking Cities, Kunst-Werke, Berlin and tour
2003
Space Between Us, Friar House, Newcastle upon Tyne. Curated by SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Fragmentos, Galeria Casa Gaia, Havana, Cuba
2002
Pattern Crazy, Crafts Council, London
CAPITAL, various venues in Newcastle upon Tyne
2001
REPRO, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2000
Pattern Transfer, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Commissions
2011
Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, UK.
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
2009
The House of Bling, Tattershall Castle, Linconshire
Artist-Object Project, National Museum Wales, Cardiff,
Commission for Temple Newsham and Leeds City Art Gallery Collection, Leeds
2007
Everything and Nothing, temporary commission for Out of the Ordinary exhibition at the V&A
2006
Frills and Flounces, permanent commission for Government Art Collection, for the DCMS building, London
By day, by night, temporary commission for Snowdomes exhibition at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2003
Posh Doily, drawing commissioned by Locus , Newcastle upon Tyne
2002
Scratching at the Surface, temporary commission by Locus , Newcastle upon Tyne
Venetian Blind, temporary commission by Globe Gallery, North Shields
2001
Under Your Feet, permanent commission for Grainger Town, Newcastle upon Tyne
Residencies
2009-10
Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester
2003
Batiscafo Projects, Havana, Cuba, organised by Gasworks/Triangle Arts Trust, London, Arts Council England and British Council
2002
Further Up in The Air, Liverpool
Selected Bibliography
Walls are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture, KWS Publishers, UK ISBN 978-0984-2260-0-9
Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection
KILLING TIME, Workplace Publication 2010
From Studio To Situation, Claire Doherty (Black Dog Publishing)
A Dent in Time, Cherry Smyth - to accompany the exhibition The Property of Two Gentlemen, Firstsite, Colchester
Prickings, publication to accompany the solo touring exhibition
Open Frequency - www.axisweb.org, Stephen Feeke, curator Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Lost Narratives, Jon Bewley, Locus , published by Art Editions North, Sunderland and Work and Leisure International, Manchester.
Isobar, published by ARTTRA in collaboration with Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK,
ISBN 978-0-9557496-0-5
Textile 07, published by Kaunas Artists' Support Fund, Lithuania, ISBN 978-9955-9587-2-7
Workplace, published by Art Editions North - essay Rescued Narratives, by Maeve Polkinhorn, assistant curator Tate Modern
'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Transient Materiality' by Linda Sandino for the Journal of Design History Volume17 Number 3, published Oxford University Press
Furthermore - book of proposals, book published by Further Afield Publications
Further Up in the Air, published by Further Afield Publications
Collections
Simmons & Simmons, London
Lodeveans Collection, UK
Private Collections, UK & USA
The Business Collectors Network, Newcastle UK
The Government Art Collection, UK
