Artist statement
Concepts
The power of light to transform architecture and landscape is of primary concern. With an innovative approach to design, integrated works are created in a range of materials, designed to respond to the suns shifting influence, changing in impact throughout the course of a day. Current practice is concerned with the links between natural light and well-being and commissioned works aim to bring natural lighting phenomena into architectural space.
Career path
Qualifications:
1998 PhD Architectural Glass, The Innovative Application of the Coated Glass Surface in Architecture
1992 BA Hons, 3D Design (Glass), University of Sunderland
1989 Polytechnic Certificate, Artist, Designer, Craftsman, University of Sunderland
Teaching Experience:
2000-present Lecturer and Researcher, University of Sunderland
1997 Visiting Lecturer, University of Sunderland
1994/95 Visiting Lecturer, 3D Design (Glass), School of Arts, Design and Communications, University of Sunderland
Areas of work:
Healthcare arts
Lecturing
New technologies
Practice-based research
Private commissions
Public art
Project management
Working with architects
Group exhibitions
- 2008 Prospect, Designed and Made Gallery, Live Theatre, Broadchare, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DQ
- 2001 The End of the Millennium Show, photographic exhibition of completed public art works in year 2000 in Hampshire
- 2000 Sea Change, exhibition of artists commissioned to create public artworks in Barrow in Furness
- 1995 Towards a Place for Art, St Peters Campus, Newcastle
- 1995 Towards a Place for Art, Surikon Institute, Moscow
- 1992 Glass and Ceramics, Smiths Gallery, London
Private commissions
- 2012 'Light shelves', Private house, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2011 Entrance screens, Private house, Durham City
- 2011 'Water wall', Private garden, London
- 2006 Illuminated screen, Private house, Cleveland
- 2000 'Periscope window', Private house, Henley on Thames
Public commissions
- 2012 'Dappled light', St Oswalds Hospice, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2010 Kinetic suspended sculpture, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
- 2009 'Prisma' - cantilevered light box, Mansfield Community Hospital, Mansfield
- 2009 'Vista' series of screens and graphic panels, Benwell Library, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2008 Suspended steel and dichroic glass sculpture, Caerphilly Borough Council Offices, Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly
- 2008 'Sea Change', Steel and glass outdoor sculpture, Sunderland City Council, Sunniside Gardens, Sunderland
- 2007 'Carousel' photographic installation of colour-changing polycarbonate, Gosforth Library, Newcastle City Council, Gosforth Library, Newcastle upon Tyne
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