Curriculum Vitae

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1996-2012:   WHITWORTH ART GALLERY, MANCHESTER. Freelance workshop leader.

2004-:2012:  PROSPECT STUDIOS, Printmaking workshops.

2005:   TODMORDEN COLLEGE, Yorkshire.

Printmaking Tutor on BA, HND and Access Courses

2000-2001:   STOCKPORT COLLEGE. Part-time tutor . Printmaking on Degree Course and A and AS Level Art and Design.

1998-2000:   MANCHESTER ADULT EDUCATION SERVICE. Part-time GCSE Art   and Design.

1996-2000:  SHENA SIMON COLLEGE. Part-time teacher A Level and GCSE Art and   Design.

1993-99        SHENA SIMON COLLEGE. Part-time teacher delivering GNVQ Art &   Design Advanced,Intermediate and Foundation levels.)

1992/90        MANCHESTER ARTISTS STUDIO ASSOCIATION. Etching workshops.

TAMESIDE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.

Printmaking  Tutor on Foundation  Course.

1992.   BIRLEY EDUCATION CENTRE, MANCHESTER.

Drypoint Etching Course. (MOCF accredited.)

1990 – 91.     WORSLEY COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION, SALFORD.

Part – time teaching on oil painting courses ( MOCF accredited. )

1990.   PRINTMAKING Tutor on In- Service Training Day for teachers,Eccles   College.

1988 – 90.     ECCLES COLLEGE OF ADULT EDUCATION, SALFORD.

Part – time teaching on oil painting classes. ( Manchester Open College   Federation accredited. ) and Pre – Foundation Course teaching Printmaking   and 3- Dimensional Studies.

1988 -89.      RISLEY REMAND CENTRE.

Part – time teacher Art and Design.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2007:   Prospect studios shortlisted for Creative Space Award, Creativity   Works, East Lancashire.

2005-2006:  Organising touring exhibition of Rossendale artists to

Bocholt, Germany.

1987 –  91:    Member of Printmakers Council of Great Britain.

1995-98:       Director of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.

1992-2002:  Based at Manchester Artists Studio Association.

1994-95:      Children’s Workshop co-ordinator. Castlefield Art Gallery.

1981-83.      Working with group of 13 artists in the establishment of independent artists   studio in Wolverhampton. 1984 – 86. Working with Dutch artists in promoting   and exhibiting art in Holland.

COMMISSIONS

2016 and 2017: Wall panels for Crowcroft Park Primary School, Manchester. Working with all pupils producing prints, found object sculptues and iPad works for large digital panels

2011:   AMLYCH COPPER PROJECT, ANGLESEY, WALES.

Working with artist Jill Randall producing decorative features for     town centre linked to copper heritage.

2010:   DECORATIVE PANELS, TONGE MOOR ROAD.BOLTON.

Series of 24 plasma cut panels attached to lamp posts. Images produced   by 4  primary schools, Bolton.Funded by Artists in Schools& Bolton MBC.

2010:   BLACKLOW BROW PRIMARY SCHOOL, HUYTON, KNOWSLEY.

workshops and fabrication of entrance sculpture.

2009:   ST AMBROSE BARLOW COMMUNITY SCHOOL, SALFORD.

Memorial tree fabricated after series of workshops in studio.

2008:   THE VIEW . Bacup. Redesign of public space, funded by

Rossendale borough Council.

2008:   MARKET HALL PROJECT, BOLTON. Project organised through       Artists in Schools, Bolton.

2007:   PUPIL VOICE, Design and Fabrication of of screens for outdoor     learning space “ Chatterbox”

2006:   RIVER RODING COMMISSION, London.

Barking and Dagenham Council and Environment Agency.

2005-6:   BLACK PATH PROJECT & PARKLANDS COMMISSION.

Wythenshawe Regeneration Team & Manchester City Council

2O05:   EYELINE CENTRE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED.

Design of aerial maze and associated features for sensory garden.

Stockport MBC and Groundwork, Manchester.

2004: MONSALL COMMISSION, Manchester City Council.

2003:   MAPLE PARK, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. Stockport MBC.

RIVER GOYT COMMISSION, Stockport City Council.

2002: DEEPDALE PLAY AREA , Preston City Council.

BIRCHFIELDS PARK PROJECT, Longsight. Manchester City Council.

DRUMMOND STREET ESTATE  , Bolton.( funded by Percent for Art )

2001: GALSTON STREET PLAY AREA, Manchester to design arch and panel

for Groundwork Manchester.

HIGH PEAK & TISSINGTON TRAIL, Derbyshire, Interpretation Project

BROOKHOUSE GATEWAY, Groundwork Trafford.

1999:   SANDHILLS PARK. Employed by Groundworks Manchester to design gates   and arches for Sandhills Regeneration Project, Collyhurst. Project involved   working with schools, youth clubs and Past and Present group.

 

MILLENNIUM GREEN PARK. Employed by Groundworks Manchester to   design gates and arches for Millennium Green Regeneration Project, Openshaw.   Project involved working with  youth groups.

1998:   STRETFORD ROAD. Design Consultancy for Trafford Metropolitan Borough   looking at Stretford Road Corridor,Inner City Regeneration Project.

1997:   CROFTLANDS SCHOOL, Ulverston.Commission to redesign school gates   and fencing at Croftlands Infant School. Lottery Funded.

1988:   TOWN CENTRE PAINTING, commissioned by Oldham Art Gallery for “Call &   Response” exhibition. Residency for 1 week working in Oldham shopping   precinct.

1987:   ART FLAG for Viewpoint Gallery, Salford.

1985:   HEINRICH HEINE PROJECT. Publication of 16 silkscreen prints and   poems. Made with assistance of Goethe Institute, Museum Boymans and   Rotterdam Arts Council. Project aim was to subsidise poetry performance in   Holland.

1981:   MURAL COMMISSION. Completion of mural ( 20ft x 5ft ),Endress & Hauser   Industrial Complex, Manchester.

1980:   MURAL COMMISSION Completion of two sports  murals ( 60ft x 20ft ),   R.A.F.Cosford Indoor Sports Arena, Wolverhampton.

AWARDS.

2007: Arts Council Award to produce work for “ Disasters of War “

exhibition at Mid Pennine Art Gallery, Burnley

2007:   Prospect studios awarded Creative Space Award, Creativity     Works, East Lancashire.

2006:   Arts Council Award to tour work of Rossendale artists to Germany.

2004:   Arts Council Award to produce work for Touchstones exhibition

Rochdale.

2003:   Arts Council Award to refurbish Prospect Studios.

2001:   Grant from Salford City Council towards Catalogue   “ Modern Myths &   Martyrs.”

1990:   Financial award to purchase etching press from the Oppenheim-John Downes    Memorial Trust.

1983:   Prizewinner in Mid-Art 83 exhibition, Dudley Art Gallery.

SELECTED WORKSHOPS.

2008-2017: working with Arts for Health project with Whitworth Art Gallery working with adult groups, family groups and children’s department at Manchester Hospitals Trust.

1996-2017:Regular freelance workshop leader at Whitworth Art Gallery, Touchstones Art  Gallery, Turnpike Art Gallery, Haworth Art Gallery.

2016 and 2017: Wall panels for Crowcroft Park Primary School, Manchester. Working with all pupils producing prints, found object sculptues and iPad works for large digital panels

2016-2014: Cavendish Primary School, Manchester , Thomas Holford School, Altrincham, Saint Mary’s RC High School, Leigh, Accrington Academy, Bury Grammar School for Boys, St Gabriels RC High School, Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, regular workshops.

2016: Castle Hill Primary School, Todmorden.

2012-2016: Summer school  residency working with Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Academy with years new intake Year 7.

2014: identity Project working with Manchester Museum Education Department and 3 Academies from East Manchester and Rochdale.

2014: Working with Coates Lane Primary School  on Egyptian theme arts week.

2016 and 2017: Wall panels for Crowcroft Park Primary School, Manchester. Working with all pupils producing prints, found object sculptues and iPad works for large digital panels

2012: ANANSI project. Working with African Caribbean Carers Group and Manchester Museum.

Secondary school printing workshops at Stockport School, Oulder Hill Community College, Accrington Academy and Buile Hill School.

TATE LIVERPOOL. Printing workshops based on modern collection.

WHITWORTH HAJJ project. Printmaking, poetry and music workshops linked to work by Idris Khan.

BLACKPOOL ARTS SOCIETY. Printmaking workshop.

2011: WHO CARES project. Project working with Manchester Museum, The Whitworth  and Manchester Hospitals, working with elderly Dementia patients.

HADFIELD & PADFIELD HERITAGE TRAIL.

working with St Andrews Junior School, Hadfield and Front Room Theatre  Company, producing book, printed T-Shirts, bags and bunting.

Creative Partnership Project.Didsbury Primary School: Heaton Norris, Stockport

Learners Lead project working with team of staff and artists to expand the  curriculum through print.

Creative Partnership Project.St Johns Primary School: Heaton Norris, Stockport.

Learners lead project working with Year 3 and 4 pupils and teaching staff to  expand the curriculum. Pupils produced printed goods to raise around £800

for victims of Japanese Tsunami.

MID PENNINE ARTS, BURNLEY.

Residency working with 8 primary schools in Todmorden, Shade,Cornholme.

GATLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL, STOCKPORT.

Project producing 10 Christmas cards with each pupil, to be sold at Christmas Fair.

JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER.

Residency working with schools and public producing illuminated letters, linked

to  monsters and demons from collection.

MELLAND HIGH SCHOOL, LEVENSHULME.

Residency to develop print techniques through local history.

CARR HILL HIGH SCHOOL, KIRKHAM, BLACKPOOL.

Residency with Year 10 pupils producing large drypoints in response to a talk  by a Holocaust Survivor.

CLAREMONT ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOLMOSS SIDE:

Colour Self Portraits with Year 1 and 2

PUSS BANK PRIMARY SCHOOL, MACCLESFIELD.

Large animal prints with Reception and Year 1 pupils

BLESSED THOMAS HOLFORD. Secondary School, Altrincham

prints produced to enhance GCSE course work

WITTON PARK HIGH SCHOOL, BLACKBURN

Range of prints on theme of Day of the Dead.

 

2010: GATLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL working with all pupils printing 5000 christmas cards. )

CARR HILL HIGH SCHOOL, KIRKHAM, BLACKPOOL.

Residency with Year 11 and 12 pupils producing collographs and drypoints to   enhance coursework

CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT. Tottington Primary School, Bury

Magic project, producing large scale printed hanging for Hall.

GIFTED AND TALENTED WORKSHOP.

Altrincham Grammar School.

WINDLEHURST SCHOOL, Marple.

Printing workshop with excluded pupils for GCSE coursework.

MANCHESTER ART GALLERY.

Residency working with secondary schools, excluded pupils and  Creative Consultants. Source material Goya etchings.

HARRIS ART GALLERY, PRESTON &  HOWARTH ART GALLERY,   ACCRINGTON. Family  and adult printing days.

CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT, Learner lead.

Working with Composer and musician Eve Harrison in Bolshaw and    Outwood Primary Schools, Cheadle. Project resulted in publication,

and performance. Projects included staff training days.

GALAXY HOUSE, MANCHESTER HOSPITALS.

Residency involving artists and poets, working with residents of   children’s hospital to produce pictures, murals  and furnishings for centre.

RED LANE PRIMARY SCHOOL, BOLTON. Printing with Year 5 and 6 pupils producing printed continents of Africa and Australia

 

2009:   CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS PROJECT.

Book Project. Bishop Bilsborrow RC Primary School , Whitworth Art     Gallery and Creative Partnerships. Bound volumes of prints produced to

mark the closure of old school and opening of new school.

Chatsworth Special School, Salford . Art week residency.

The Elms School, Bury. Eid Card printing workshop.

Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool. Bronze Summer Scheme Arts Award.

Mid Pennine Art Gallery, Burnley. 8 Day Residency working in gallery and primary   schools in Burnley linked to START 09  children’s art exhibition.

Artists in Schools Food project working with Bishop Bridgeman Primary School,

Bolton.

2008:   Printmaking residency at Turnpike Gallery, Leigh working with schools

linked to Howard Hodgkin prints ( Arts Council Touring Exhibition )

Bolton Market Hall project working with Artists in Schools and Bolton

Market Hall.

Printmakers Apprentice, Creative Partnerships and Whitworth Art Gallery,

Gatley Primary School ( working with all pupils on Enterprise project. )

Norris Bank Primary School ( whole school Enterprise week and Christmas fair )

Staff training session, Spindle Point Primary Bolton.

Adult workshops and Athos project for parents and children, Turnpike.

Printmaking days with Yr 10 and AS  Pupils, Kirkham Community College, Lancs.

Printmaking workshops with Salford Secondary Schools.

Wakefield Art Gallery, Touchstones, Rochdale.

Mid Pennine Art Gallery, Burnley. Start workshops and

printmaking workshops for secondary schools, primary schools and teachers.

2007:   Whitworth Art Gallery, American exchange students looking at Hogarth.

Touchstones, family print session.

Teacher training day. Chatsworth school, Salford.

Teacher training day St Ambrose Secondary School, Salford.

Shaw and Crompton School,year 6 and Year 8 print taster day.

Canon Slade School, A and AS Print residency

Higher school, GCSE print residency, Whiston, Merseyside.

Stockport School, GCSE Print day

Beardswood School, Blackburn, Lancs, GCSE pupils.

Grange  School, Oldham, Summer School

Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.( Linked to Rembrandt etching exhibition. )

Various workshops at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

PUPIL VOICE. Residency with Ellenbrook Primary School and Whitworth

Art Gallery, funded by Creative Partnerships Manchester & Salford.

“CHILDRENS CITY “. Project with Creative Partnerships Salford & Manchester,   The Lowry and Monton Primary School, Salford.

Printmaking day at Waterfoot Primary School, Rossendale

2006:   Residency at INSCAPE HOUSE, CHEADLE HULME, STOCKPORT.

Gallery Oldham, Aim Higher Project.

Freelance Printmaking workshop leader at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester,   Huyton Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham, Harris, Preston and

Touchstones, Rochdale

Wages of Sin. Residency with Wilbraham Primary School and Whitworth

Art Gallery, funded by Creative Partnerships Manchester & Salford.

Project included In – Service Training session for staff.

Creative, Learning & Training Day, Didsbury School of Education, Manchester.

Creative Partnerships, Manchester & Salford.

Residency at Wilbraham Primary School,

in conjunction with Whitworth Art Gallery and Creative Partnerships.

Touchstones, Rochdale. Adult Printmaking workshop.

Loreto College, Manchester. Residency working with A and AS students.

Stockport School, In – service training for secondary teachers and non -art teachers.

In -service training day for primary teachers in Knowsley.

Studio workshop as part of KIDZ Festival at Prospect Studio, Waterfoot.

2005:   Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Trafford.

Working with secondary pupils over 4 days, producing work based on news   stories, linked to Goya print exhibition. Aim Higher Project.

Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington,

Printmaking sessions with users of Lancashire Day centres.

Oldham College. Lecture to Degree Students.

Big Draw.  Touchstones, Rochdale

Harris Museum and Art Gallery. Summer print workshops.

Touchstones, Rochdale.  Summer Egyptian workshops.

Eyeline Centre, Stockport. Workshops with visually impaired users.

Wages of Sin. Residency with Medlock Primary School and Whitworth

Art Gallery, funded by Creative Partnerships Manchester & Salford.

Project included In – Service Training session for staff.

Levenshulme High School for Girls. Mask relief prints.

St Monica’s Rc High School. Print Day.

Bryer House Community Centre, Prescot. Merseyside.

Crompton House, Shaw, Oldham. Workshop with hearing impaired pupils.

Various workshops in primary and secondary schools

2004:   Dinosaur Coast Project Residency, Seamer, Scarborough.

Freelance print workshop leader, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Printmaking residency, linked to landscape exhibition, Gallery Oldham, Lancs.

Corpus Christ workshop, Chadderton, Oldham.

Kirkby Gallery, linked to Picasso print exhibition.

Workshops linked to art project at Handforth station.

( Handforth primary schools, Handforth Youth Club )

Harris Museum and Gallery, workshop linked to embroidery exhibition.

2003:   Two week printmaking residency at Gallery Oldham linked to National

Primary Curriculum in conjunction with Picasso print exhibition.

Freelance printmaking workshop leader, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester,

Stockport Art Gallery, Huyton Art Gallery, Royal Armouries, Leeds.

Series of print and drawing workshops in conjunction with “ Words “ Arts Council

Touring Exhibition, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire.

Half term workshops, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston.

In Service Training Day for education staff. Manchester Art Gallery.

2002:   Huyton Borough Council, Cultural Curriculum Project. Residency working in   primary school linking arts to curriculum.

2001:   Print workshops, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Radclyffe School, Ordsall, Salford for Groundwork Salford & Trafford.

2000:   Print workshop, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. ( Endings exhibition. )

Print workshop, Manchester City Art Gallery.

Print workshop,Huddersfield Art Gallery, Yorkshire.

Print workshop (staff development programme), Mount St Joseph School,   Bolton.

Print workshop ( after schools club ), Saviours Primary School, Salford.

BIG DRAW: Workshops Lowry Centre, Salford

Children’s workshops, Lowry Centre, Salford.

1999:    Exhibition and residency for 1 week, Schools Printing workshops. Salt Museum,   Northwhich, Cheshire.

1998:   Print making workshops, Old Trafford Primary School.

Art workshops, Newall Green Secondary school ( CAPE Project )

Stockport Art Gallery, work with Stepping Hill Art Group.

Stockport Art Gallery, Summer Fun Art Workshops.

Print workshops with students from Art History course at Manchester University

Print workshops with students from Whitworth Art Society. (1996-98.)

Salford Art Gallery,Etching workshops and lecture for Salford Art Group.

Drypoint workshops at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.

Children’s workshops at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.

1997:   Residency in Croftlands Infant School, Ulverston.

Two -day residency in shop unit, Ulverston, Cumbria.

1994:   Weekend Print workshop, City Art Gallery, Manchester.( & 1993 )

Print workshop, Science and Industry Museum, Manchester.

Print workshop, Salford United Reform Church, Manchester

1993:   One weeks workshops at Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester.

Children’s workshops, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.

1992:   Children’s printmaking workshops, Athenaeum Art Gallery, Manchester, during

” The Expressionist Face ” exhibition in conjunction with Festival of    Expressionism.

1991:   Children’s workshops , Stockport Art Gallery during ” Biting the Dust ” exhibition.

PUBLICATIONS.

2001:   Publication of catalogue “ Modern Myths & Martyrs “ foreword by Colin Lloyd.

( ISBN no: 0-9541333-0-7. )

2011   Publication of book Monoprints & Etchings ( ISBN no:0-9541333-1-5.)

available from blurb.com

 

REVIEWS.

2005:   Review of Fearless exhibition by Brendan Fletcher, Artists Newsletter, January.

2004:   Feature in Manchester Evening News and Rossendale Free Press, linked to Fearless

exhibition.

2002:   Review of Hybrida Exhibition by Justine Brooks, Artist Newsletter.

2001:   Featured in City Life Magazine. November 2001.

1992, 1996, 1997:

Featured on GMR Radio, BBC Manchester,

1991:   Featured on KFM Independent Radio Stockport and Manchester Evening News and   Metro News 1991.( re Stockport exhibition. )

1991:   Featured on Granada TV’ s arts programme “Celebration” TWELVE PAINTERS.

1982:    Featured on Midlands Today Re Mural Painting.

Work in Blackpool Art Gallery, Touchstones, Whitworth Art Gallery and  private collections in Holland, Canada, Spain,Germany, America and United Kingdom.