cv + about
NDD painting and ceramics
short term study Antibes,France
short term study Royal College of Art - research
MA painting
Post Grad. Dip. Art History
work
National Film Unit NZ
Ceramic Projects York
Chelsea Pottery London
designed and made work for TV productions
designed and made clothes London and Italy
designed and made domestic ware for restaurants London
worked exclusively with interior designers
own studio UK and New Zealand
work sold through selected galleries
commissions/collections
National Bank NZ
Andrew Grima London
Green Gallery Tokyo
Lotteries Commission
Otago University
Hotel Central NZ
Petrocorp
CDL Systems Ltd
Inscape Design
'Taylormade' TV productions
Millennium Hotel Queenstown
ANZ Bank
MicoWakefield Ltd
NABISCO NZ
NZ Insurance
Southern Cross
work held in private collections throughout the world
publications membership etc
NZ Potter - incl. cover
Ceramic Review UK
Nelson Evening Mail NZ
Dominion NZ
Evening Post NZ
featured in 'Kaleidoscope' TV art programme
Who's Who Aeotearoa
NZ Society of Potters
NZ Home and Garden
NZ Your Home and Garden
advisory committee for setting up Craft Design (now BA)
accepted as member of Contemporary Applied Arts London
accepted as member of Crafts Council Selected Index NZ
Member of NZ Designer Secretariat
Info held at Te Papa Museum Wellington and Auckland Museum
exhibitions
Faenza Italy - rep UK
Faenza Italy - rep NZ
Art Forum Singapore
Biennale Internation Vallauris France
Villas gallery Wellington
Craftsperson of Month Crafts Council NZ
'Fletcher Challenge' Auckland Museum
'Human Touch' Rotarua Museum
Edinburgh University
JR Fryer gallery SoHo New York
NZ Exhibition Opus gallery London
Pacific Rim gallery California
Contemporary Applied Arts summer exhibition. London
Jewell and Roberts gallery London
British Airways 'Outstanding Talent' London
International Ceramics Lausanne Switzerland
Merylyn Savill gallery Wellington
Whitespace gallery Auckland
Egyptian Triennial Cairo
Whakatane Museum NZ
'Edge of Clay' Crafts Council NZ
Galerie Hautefeuille Paris
Norsewear merit award
Touring exhibition Suter Gallery NZ
100 NZ Potters
NZ's International Potters Antipodes gallery
Sydney Art Fair Australia
Orfali gallery Amman Jordan
Fletcher Challenge presentation pieces Japan
Castelli Museum collection Italy
about
My working life has been divided between the UK and New Zealand.
The paintings and ceramics allow, for me, a perfect working balance
and are inextricably linked. Not only in the obvious sense of ceramic
images being present in the paintings as markers of history,
but also in the division between art and craft and their philosophical
differences. My paintings are mostly acrylic on both stretched and un-stretched canvas. For ceramics I work across the temperature ranges, techniques and clays.
I am interested in the ideas of visual/verbal, identity/place,
memory/trace.
I am now based in York, UK and can be easily contacted through the
'contact' page here on the website.