Artist statement
Concepts
I am a site specific environmental artist responding to 'place'; creating sculptural solutions in the landscape from earthworks enduring many years to temporary installation lasting only a few days. The spatial aspect within my work is a key element to consider. Place gives inspiration, meaning and strength to the forms and lines so that the sculpture becomes integrated with its surroundings. My work does not compete with the landscape, but creates a subtle addition to it. Not noticeable until close up, they become a place to stumble upon, a place to linger, highlighting qualities of place that perhaps would have been quickly passed by - a place of contemplation.
Influences
'place', landscape, elements, nature, processes, Far East - Japan, environmental art, land art, landscape architecture, architecture, sculpture, installation, contemplation
Teaching experience
1995/02 Part-time Lecturer, Landscape Architecture Department, Leeds Metropolitan University
Areas of work
Primary education
Adult education
Exhibiting
Lecturing
Practice-based research
Private commissions
Public art
Residencies
Workshops
Working with architects
Collections
South Carolina Botanical Garden, South Carolina, USA
Qualifications and training
- 1996 MA, Landscape Architecture, Leeds Metropolitan University
- 1993 Graduate Diploma, Landscape Architecture, Leeds Metropolitan University
- 1990 BA Hons, Landscape Architecture, Leeds Metropolitan University
Solo exhibitions
- 2002 'Translating Place', Kezouin Temple, Kamakura, Japan
- 2000 Photography exhibition, Florida State Museum of Art, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- 2000 Public Art, Marihamn, land, Finland
Group exhibitions
- 2001 Abiko Open Air Exhibition, Abiko, Japan
- 2001 'One Tree' Project, touring exhibition; Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh; Geffrye Museum, London; Cheshire; Nottingham; Bristol
- 2000 Asia Pacific Arts Exhibition, National Institute of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2000 2nd Yokahama International Open Air Exhibition, Yokahama Forest, Japan
- 1999 Connemara Conservancy Sculpture Show, Dallas, Texas
- 1998 3rd International Symposium, Kong-Ju, South Korea
- 1995 Yamonobe Snow Festival, Yamagata, Japan
Residencies
- 1999 Artist Residency, Bardsey Island, Wales, UK
Public commissions
- 2005 Coordinates, Salts Mill, Saltaire, UK
- 2004 'Incline', Grey Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 2004 The Living Image, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London, UK
- 2003 Mogami Open Air Festival, Mogami river valley, Japan
- 2003 'Explorations', National Botanical Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- 2003 Art and the Travelling landscape, SUSTRANS, Cleckheaton, UK
- 2002 Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale, South Korea
- 2002 'Incline', part of 'People Making Places' programme, Scarborough and Barnsley
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