CV
Higher Education
1993-1994
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
MA Illustration
1990-1993
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
BA (Hons) Illustration (First Class)
1988-1990
Bournville College of Art
BTEC National Diploma in General Art & Design
Teaching Qualifications
1997-1998
Oxford Brookes University
PGCE (Post Compulsory Education)
1997-1998
D34 Internal Verifiers Award
1996-1997
C&G 7307 Further & Adult Ed. Teachers Certificate
1996-1997
GNVQ Assessors Award
Grants and awards
Manufacturing Advisory Service 2009
Grant awarded to assist with the development and experimentation of etching techniques
Arts Council England 2006
Awarded funding to purchase specialist printing equipment.
Short listed for 'UK Trade & Investment Award for Export
Chelsea Crafts Fair, October 2005
Short listed for 'The British Crafts in Japan' Award
Chelsea Crafts Fair, October 2003
George Little Management International Marketing Award, October 2002
Winner of the George Little Management Award – awarded at the Chelsea Crafts Fair 2002 for work most appropriate for export and potential success in the international marketplace.
Creative Ambition Award 2002
Awarded by Arts Council West Midlands to develop new work.
Creative Ambition Award 2001
Awarded by Arts Council West Midlands for first time exhibiting at Chelsea Crafts Fair 2001.
Princes Youth Business Trust 2001
Start up assistance given to purchase digital imaging equipment.
Recipient of Year Of the Artist Award - 2000
Arts Council award for a residency at the Jaguar Car Factory, Coventry.
David Canter Memorial Award '1998'
Awarded the 'David Canter Memorial Award' for automata makers, September 1998, for purchase of specialist equipment to anodise aluminium.
Tangye Memorial Prize - 1994
(awarded by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design for innovative work undertaken on my MA Degree.)
Louisa Ryland Travel Scholarship - Prague December 1993
(awarded by Birmingham Institute of Art and Design)
Press
Irish Interiors – July 2008
Vogue (Germany) – November 2007
Coast Magazine – March 2007
Made in the Middle, exhibition catalogue – Craftspace Touring 2006
Country Living Magazine – Summer 2006
Collect it Magazine – April 2006
‘Lets Start at the Beginning’ Crafts Mag. – Crafts Council Sep/Oct 2006
Lookout, Crafts Magazine – Crafts Council, Sep. / Oct. 2004
Made in the Middle, exhibition catalogue – Craftspace Touring 2002
Automata & Mechanical Toys, by Rodney Pepe, - Crowood Press 2002art.tm ‘in art-iculate’ exhibition catalogue – November 2001
Arts and Crafts Magazine – September 1999
Oriel Myrddin, ‘Recycling the Century’ exh. Catalogue June 1999