EDUCATION

1999-2001 Manchester Metropolitan University MA Fine Art
1993-1995 Goldsmith’s College, University of London MA History of Art
1992-1993 Cambridge Regional College City & Guilds 730 Adult & Further Education Teaching Certificate
1987-1989 Nottingham Trent University BA (Hons) Fine Art
1985-1987 Dartington College of Arts Diploma (HE) Art & Deign in a Social Context
1984-1985 Lancashire Polytechnic BTEC Diploma Foundation Course in Art & Design

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2004
Comme Ca Art Prize North 2004 (finalist)
Pizza Express Prospects (finalist)
Michael Gourley Award, MAFA Open

2003
Beck's Futures (nominated)

EXHIBITIONS

2006
Tutti Frutti, Solo Exhibition, BLOC Space, Sheffield

2005
Art in a Britbox, Assign, Sunderland
Focal Solo Ruthin Festival of Contemporary Art and Light *

2004
We Go Round and Round in the Night and are Consumed by Fire,
Liverpool Biennial, Independents.
Remote Control, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham *
Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Salford
Pizza Express Prospects, Tea Building, London *

2003
We go round & round in the night and are consumed by fire, New York
Suite Open Studios, Cow Lane, Salford
Thermo 03, The Lowery, Salford
Beyond the Pale, Gallery 103, North East Wales Institute, Wrexham *
Round in Circles, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge http://www.taxigallery.org.uk

2002
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2002, Static, Liverpool, London *
Art Take Away, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Mostyn 12, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, LLandudno
Something Light, Gallery 103, North East Wales Institute, Wrexham *

2001
All Colours Will Agree in the Dark, Corner House, Manchester *

2000
Interim, Ove Arup Gallery, Manchester
Blind Date, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA

1999
Blind Date, Righton Gallery, MMU, Manchester

1998/9
Mostyn 10, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno

1997
Post Early for Xmas, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

1996
Contemporary Art Society Market, Royal Festival Hall, London
Royal Over-Seas League Open, London *
Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Arts Centre

1995
Contemporary Art Society Market, Royal Festival Hall, London
Kettles Yard Open Exhibition, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge *
Interior Spaces (solo show), McMillan Gallery, Cambridge
In Patagonia (solo show), Burgh House, London

1990 - 1994
Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk
Art For Sale IV, The Guardian, Whiteley’s, London *
Beyond Landscape (solo show), Skelmersdale & Peterboro Arts Centre
Art for Sale II, The Guardian,Whiteley’s, London
Art in Offices, Unicorn Consultancy, London
Drawings for All, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
A Sense of Place (solo show), Wysing Arts, Cambridge
The New Generation, Bonhams, London *
New English Art Club, The Mall Galleries, London
Northern Graduates, New Academy Gallery, London

( * publications)

EMPLOYMENT

2003-date University College Chester, Fine Art Lecturer
2001-2003 North East Wales Institute, Wrexham, Critical Studies Lecturer
1992 - 1997 Cambridge Regional College, Lecturer in Fine Art and Contextual Studies

PUBLISHED WRITINGS

Ways of Looking in Something Light: Notes on Abstraction, Exhibition Catalogue (2002)
ISBN 0 94688 120 1
Tess Jaray in Dictionary of Women Artists edited by Delia Gaze, Fitzroy Dearborn,
London (1997) ISBN 1 88496 421 4
The Architectural Uncanny: an exploration of the homely and unhomely,
MA Dissertation Thesis, Goldsmith's University (1995)

RESIDENCIES

1991 Artist in Residence, Raleigh International Expedition, Patagonia, Southern Chile