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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
| 2000 |
Storey Gallery Lancaster, U.K: 'Twenty
Four Feet' Luneside Studios group show |
| 1999 |
Living Room Gallery, Sun Street, Lancaster, U.K: 'Sideview'
- Luneside Artists group show |
| 1996 |
Storey Gallery, Lancaster, England: 'Invited artists
exhibition' |
| 1987 |
Hauseman Gallery, The Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster, U.K:
Solo Exhibition |
| 1986 |
San Francisco, USA 'International exhibition against
Apartheid', group exhibition |
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ART EDUCATION |
| 1991 |
Sheffield University, U.K: MA in Art and Psychotherapy |
| 1985 |
S. Herts College of Art & Design, St Albans, U.K:
Post graduate Diploma in Art Therapy |
| 1977 |
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, U.K: BA Hons Fine Art |
| 1976 |
Storey Institute, Lancaster, U.K: Foundation Studies
in Art & Design |
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BIOGRAPHY |
Born in the
summer of the great Hungarian Uprising of
1956, in one of those fading dark dank almost Dickensian mill
towns on the north side of that great sprawling beast that
is Manchester. This landscape - immortalised by the deadpan
brush of Mr Lowry - was already slowly receding into history
when the booming radical rocking sixties proceeded to transpose
its brighter more vital palette against the old grey heavy
industrial foreground.
School years were a fierce juxtaposition of these old and
new forces, as represented by the opposing generations. Prewar
attitudes and institutions clashed against a new generation's
culture, riding the white heat technological revolution. Art
was never highly valued by our masters and their structures
- at best a tolerated recreation, a means of distraction,
a momentary respite relief before getting back to the real
business of life. In an atmosphere like this one maintains
a commitment to the value of art, not because of but in spite
of the surroundings. Life after school allowed a widening
of my cultural horizons, a greater contact with more enlightened
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It
was not long before I found my way into art college. Now
I was plunged first into the liberated environs of modern
art, then further still into the contemporary avant garde
of the late 1970s. Here painting was seen as 'past it'.
Instead a sterile nihilistic conceptualism was touted as
the future. I concluded this offering was empty, obsfucating,
and decadent, a sophisticated attempt to suffocate the creative
spirit, no less pernicious than the cruder repressions of
the school system I had endured some years before.
After art college - a wilderness period and time to reorientate,
eventually turning back to painting and drawing as a vital
source of renewal and strength. This led to a greater awareness
of the therapeutic potential of art; eventually leading
to training in art therapy in 1985 and further study at
Sheffield University in 1991 resulted in an MA in Art and
Psychotherapy. |
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