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