About the artist

Exhibitions

1965 & 1966
Young Contemporaries

1973
Serpentine Painting ’73
Serpentine Gallery, London

1976
Exhibition of Squares Work
Swiss Cottage Library, London

1976
A.I.R Gallery, London
Exhibition curated by Rene Dipple (curator at Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam) 

1977
Paper Works: Random Selections and Chance Arrangements
Art Works Space, Barbican Arts Group, London

1977 & 1978
Whitechapel Open

1978
Square & Circle
House Gallery, London

1978
Random Selections & Chance Arrangements
Art Works Space, Barbican Arts Group

1980
Studio Installation & Publication,
“Art?Notes”

Barbican Arts Group 

1996–2004
Annual Open Studio, ‘The Art Tour’
Tynedale Artists’ Network, Northumberland

2005
Exhibitions in ‘aSpace’ Gallery
Gateshead

2012
Chance Arrangements
SixtySevenA Gallery
Dalston, London

2013
Only Seventy Show
Retrospective at SixtySevenA Gallery
Dalston, London

2015
Open Studio, Walthamstow Art Trail
Walthamstow, London

Writings & Publications

Wages For Artists?
Report for Artists’ Union, 1972

Report for Arts Services Grants on AIR Ltd and SPACE Ltd Organisations
1975 – 1977

Economic Survey of Visual Artists in London
Greater London Arts Association, 1976

Chapter on Artists’ Residencies in “Making Ways” – A Visual Artists’ Survival Guide”
AN Publications, 1987

Wages For Artists?
Report for Artists’ Union, 1972

Compiler of Northern Entries for “A Directory of Exhibition Spaces”
AU Publications, 1990

Residencies in Education
AN Publications, 1990

Evaluation of DLI Artists Residencies
1992

Contributor to “4 Dialogues”
On Open Studios, The Art Tour
Quay Arts, Hull, 1999

The Aesthetics of Arts and Cultural Management
PGdip Course Document, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 2004

Culture’s Relevance as a Complex Adaptive System
Paper for European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management Conference, 2003

Landscape Analogues – Notes
City Studios, 2012

Drawing Us In: Arthur Ransome as Illustrator
Paper for Literary Weekend, Arthur Ransome Society, 2015

Educator

Sydenham School
1968–1975
1978–1987
Art Teacher

Lambeth Adult Institute
Mural Project
Tulse Hill Probation Hostel

City Literary Institute
1972–1980
Part-time Lecturer

University of Northumbria at Newcastle
1988–2008
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Management
Undergraduate and PGDip courses

Cultural Manager

Director, Arts Services Grants
Co-ordinator A.I.R Ltd and S.P.A.C.E Ltd

1975–1977

Advisor to Lambeth Council
Series of street-level artists’ exhibitions in empty shops

Lambeth Council’s representative on Greater London Arts
1977–1985

Establishing & developing Barbican Arts Group Studios
Ran “Art Works Project” an interchange between the public and artists via Art Works Space, education and outreach programmes

Member, Executive Committee
Lambeth Arts Council, 1980–1983

Founder member and first chair, Art Space Federation
Representing artist-run spaces nationwide

Contributor to workshops towards a code of practice for public arts projects for the National Artists Association
Newcastle, 1986 and Manchester, 1989

Consultant to Sunderland Arts Group and member of steering group for Arts Resource
Sunderland

Consultant and evaluator of Durham Light Infantry Museum’s artist’s residency and for theatre and arts projects
Derwentside Domestic Violence Forum

Board member, South Tynside Arts Studio
Arts and mental health project, 1998–2007

Member, steering group for preservation and development of Pasmore Apollo Pavilion
Easington, County Durham