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Selected recent projects and Awards

2011

  • "Precipitate", City Depot, Southampton, Southampton City Council
  • "Myriad" (Concept only), The Malls, Basingstoke, Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council

 

2010

 

  • Lead Artist, Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Council & English Partnerships
  • 'Broadcast', Station Square, Chelmsford, Essex CC
  • 'Thermals', Birmingham Acute Hospital, NHS Trust
  • 'Kaleidoscope', Priory Rise, Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes
  • Lead Artist, Alnwick Town Centre, Inspire Northumberland 
     

2007/8/9
 

  • Lead Artist, Old Orchard, Poole, Poole Borough Council
  • 'Halation' Westgate, light installation, Southampton City Council (shortlisted for Civic Trust Award 2010)
  • 'Hyperscope' Blyth Market Place, Blyth Borough Council, Inspire Northumberland
  • Lead Artist Hengrove Park, Bristol, Bristol City Council/ Ginkgo Projects
  • Lead Artist Penn Hill, Poole, Poole Borough Council
  • 'Radar' & 'Lamplight' Art@thecentre, Slough Borough Council
  • French Quarter Southampton 2 temporary projects and one permanent (SCC/Linden Homes)
  • 'Braid' Sudell Cross, Blackburn, Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council,
  • 'Sugar Loaf Lights' Telephone House, Southampton, Linden Homes
  • Lead Artist Barnstaple Town Centre Regeneration, PROJECT/NDDC/DDC (ongoing)
  • Monmouth Welcome Centre Design Team Member (with Alec French Architects) Artwork Wales/Monmouth CC
  • Chantry Bridge Design Team Member, Southampton, Southampton City Council
  • 'Sweetheart Wings' Sustrans, Art and the Travelling Landscape, Wansbeck
     

2003/4

  • 'A show of Hands' Princesshay, Exeter, Land Securities / SWPA
  • 'Ice Harvest' Abbey Road, Barking, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
  • 'Heat & Work' Trinity Way, Salford, Salford City Council / CITE
  • 'Departure Gate' ProjectBlue1, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • 'Parallel Plotter' Poole District Council/ Environment Agency (Winner of Pride of Poole 2004 Award)
  • 'Map' 3D Sculptural map commission (in collaboration with Tod Hanson) Grainger Town Partnership
     

2001/2

  • 'Haven' Humberstone Gate, Leicester, Leicester Cultural Mapping Project, Leicester City Council
  • 'Ingekomen Stukken' exhibitor, Stroom, Den Haag, Netherlands (Encore 10 X 10 Award Northern Arts)
  • 'Headcubes' Monument Lighting Project, Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle City Council)
  • 'Counterweight' Millennium Gala Theatre, Design Commission, Durham (Durham City)
  • 'Curtain Call' Theatre Royal Lighting scheme, Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle City Council)
  • 'Threshold / The Night has a thousand eyes' Lighting projects, Bolton M.B.C.
     

2000/1

  • 'Dumb Waiter' Sitooterie, Millennium Project, Belsay Hall, English Heritage
  • 'Electrolyte 2' Interchange Centre, Commission, (Nexus / City of Sunderland)
  • 'Diecase Matrices' Fakenham Town Centre Development
  • (Commissions East / North Norfolk D.C.) (Winner of 2001 Design Award BCSC)
  • Artist/Advisor Public Art & Lighting Strategy, Newcastle upon Tyne (Public Arts / Grainger Town Partnership)
     

1995 - 7

  • Participant at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (entire two year period), Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Participant in Rem Koolhaas & OMA Masterclass, (Designing 'Point City') Berlage Institute
  • Tunnel Installation Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
  • Lift Installation Pulitzer Hotel, Amsterdam
  • Rotterdam Kunststichting Award
  • Dutch Government Awards (NUFFIC) 1995 & 1996
     

Further Experience

  • Panel Member Southampton Urban Design Advisory Panel, Southampton City Council
  • Bartlett Travel Scholarship (2 month research period in Japan) 1991
     

Referees

 Wendy Scott
Inspire Northumberland
c/o Northumberland County Council, County Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 2EF

Tel: 01670 533653

 Liz Smith
Southampton City Council, Civic Centre, Southampton SO14 7LP

Tel: 02380 832925

Qualifications Ba Hons (Fine Art) 1st Class / Master of Fine Art