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studying at St.Martin's School of Art in London I worked with the
Light/Sound Workshop group on projects including those at the Brighton
Festival and Oxford Museum of Modern Art. Also with the Archigram group
at the Milan Triennale, on its Monaco project and producing drawings for
its magazine.
In the 1970s a series
of solo exhibitions dealing with the relationship between art, popular
culture and politics included those at Adhocs Gallery, London; Art Net,
London and Franklin Furnace, New York. Group exhibitions included The
Mechanics of Manipulation, La Mamelle, San Francisco; Radical Attitudes
to the Gallery, Art Net, London; Art For Society, Whitechapel
Gallery, London; Political Practice, Galeria Civica, Modena and
Art From the British Left, Artists Space, New York. Limited edition
books included A Novel Sculpture of 1958, Art Delinquency Notes,
An Unknown Art History and Genre and writings appeared in such
magazines as Second Aeon, Tracks, Kontexts, History
Workshop and Control.
From 1978 to 1992
I produced paintings using buildings as my subject-matter - meta
phors for economic,
ideological and political power in the modern city - resulting in solo
exhibitions at Art Net, London; C Space, New York; Orchard Gallery, Derry;
AIR Gallery, London and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. Group exhibitions
included Whitechapel Open; War of Images, Transmission Gallery,
Glasgow; State of the Nation, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry; Attitudes
to Ireland, Orchard Gallery and Narrative Painting, Castlefield
Gallery, Manchester.
In the last decade
my work - mostly three-dimensional pieces and installations, often using
found materials - has concentrated on the theme of poverty and homelessness,
reflecting on 'cardboard cities', housing estates and street markets.
Solo exhibitions have been at Central Space, London; Mission Gallery,
Swansea; Standpoint Gallery, London and Colette, Paris. Group exhibitions
included East International, Mostyn Open and Whitechapel Open.
I live and work in
south London.
Web Art
Otoliths #18,
2010
artcornwall webprojects, 2010
Otoliths #15, 2009
Suss, 2009
London Poetry Systems, 2009
Stuffed Net Art Open, 2006
Locus Novus, 2006
(B)EAST 05 #1, 2005
Drunkenboat #6, 2004
Solo exhibitions
2004 Crescent Lodge, London
2002 St.Mary Woolnoth Church, London
2001 Colette, Paris
2000 Standpoint Gallery, London
1998 Trinity Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells
1996 Mission Gallery, Swansea
1995 Bonnington Gallery, Coventry University - Gallery II, University
of Bradford
1994 Central Space, London
1988 Darlington Arts Centre - Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1987 Pentonville Gallery, London
1985 Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
1984 Pentonville Gallery, London
1983 South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell - Quay Arts Centre, Isle of
Wight
1982 Art & Research Exchange, Belfast - Orchard Gallery, Derry - AIR
Gallery, London
1980 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff - Pentonville Gallery, London
1979 C Space, New York - Printed Matter, New York
1978 Art Net, London - Franklin Furnace, New York
1975 Art Net, London
1974 University of Surrey
1973 Adhocs Gallery, London - Oval House Gallery, London
Group exhibitions
2009 Age & Memory, Riverside Gallery, Ricmond - Unfolding,
Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk - In Their Own Words, Bank Street Arts,
Sheffield - Art for Everyone, Riverside
Gallery, Ricmond
2008 Just Desserts, Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, London
- Clinch/Cross/Cut, New Jerseyy, Basel
2007 Threads of Meaning, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
- Series & Systems, Project
Space at London Art Fair - Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, In
Their Own Words, End Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University - Public
Pages, Plymouth University, Artsway+10,
Artsway, New Forest - In Their Own Words Too,
Merchants Warehouse, Manchester - Building Sites, FHF Gallery,
London
2006 Art For The General Strike!,
Changing Room Gallery, London - Normalife Unlimited, Neals Yard,
London - The Art of Hip Hop, Brighton University Gallery
2005 Canvas Babylon Gallery, Ely
2004 Arttextiles 3 Bury St.Edmunds Art Gallery travelling exhibition
2001 Il Condominio, Hicetnunc 2001, San Vito al Tagliamento,
Italy
2000 Live in Your Head, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1999 Housing & Homelessness, Candid Gallery, London - Spatial
Concepts, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
1998 Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition - Medway Open, Gillingham
1997 Push the Boat Out, Mission Gallery, Swansea - City Markets,
Alan Baxter Gallery, London -
Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, CGCHE, Cheltenham - Checkout,
Watermans Arts Centre, London
1996 Contingent Lots, Riverside Studios, London - Whitechapel
Open - Mostyn Open
1995 East International, Norwich - Mostyn Open, Llandudno
1994 Old Object: New Subject, Nottingham University - Traces,
Islington Art Factory, London
1992 Artists For Nuclear Disarmament, Swiss Cottage Library, London
- Art of the Urban Now, Small Mansion Arts Centre, London -
Migraine Images, St.Martins Gallery, London - Western Exposure,
Watermans Arts Centre, London
1991 An Art Exhibition, Feeringbury Manor, Essex
1990 Artists For Nuclear Disarmament, Swiss Cottage Library, London
- Art & Communication, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1989 Young Unknowns Gallery, London
1988 Narrative Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester - Homage
to Federico Garcia Lorca, Laguada Gallery, Granada
1987 State of the Nation, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry - Attitudes
to Ireland, Orchard Gallery, Derry
1986 Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London -War
of Images, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow - Whitechapel Open
1985 Written Language in the Image, Makkom Gallery, Amsterdam
1984 Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York - Spirit
of London, Royal Festival Hall, London - Offset, New England
Foundation for the Arts touring exhibition
1983 Spirit of London, Royal Festival Hall, London - New Beginnings,
Pentonville Gallery, London
1982 Whitechapel Open - South Bank Show, South London Art Gallery
- Artists Against Apartheid, Seven Dials Gallery, London - Arteder
82, Bilbao - Britain Salutes New York, Center for Book Arts,
New York
1981 Cleveland Drawing Biennale
1980 Vigilance, Franklin Furnace, New York
The Page as Alternative Space, Franklin Furnace, New York
1979 Urban Signals, Centro Internazionale di Brera, Milan -
Art From The British Left, Artists Space, New York - The Open &
Closed Book, V & A Museum, London
1978 Art For Society, Whitechapel Gallery, London & Ulster
Museum, Belfast - Artwords & Bookworks, Los Angeles ICA
- Franklin FurnaceTravelling Exhibition, Japan & Australasia
- Political Practice, Galleria Civica, Modena
1977 The Mechanics of Manipulation, La Mamelle, San Francisco -
Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Art Net, London - Definitions
of Art, Other Books & So, Amsterdam
1976 Artists Books, Arts Council travelling exhibition - Networks,
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh - International Print Exhibition,
San Francisco Arts Center
1975 Art Information Festival, Middelberg, Holland - Artists
Bookworks, British Council travelling exhibition
1974 Art Meeting Place, London
1972 Adhocs Gallery, London
1968 Milan Triennale
1967 Light/Sound Workshop, Oxford Museum of Modern Art - Young
Contemporaries, Royal Institute Galleries, London
1965 Miss Misty & the Tri-Cool Data, Aston University, Birmingham
Curation
Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Art Net, London, 1977
Projects
2008 Subliminal Seduction, Oxford Street, London - 20x20
Magazine Issue 1(London)
2005 Making Things Better, East International, Norwich
1999 Reform Project , London
1971 You Must Be Joking! Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
1970 Oh Flux! Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
1968 21st Century, CBS TV - Release, BBC TV
1967 Interaction, St.Martins School of Art
Publications
1984 Strains
1981 Looking at a Group of Buildings in Ireland (Orchard Gallery,
Derry)
1977 Genre; Life-still (Edition After Hand, Denmark)
1975 An Unknown Art History (Art Net, London) - Oeuvre -
Twenty Art Outings
1974 Art Delinquency Notes - Casts
1973 Site (such a)
1972 A Novel Sculpture of 1958
Writings
‘Some Sculpture Scenes of 1958’ in Aspidistra 1 (London
2010)
‘Fountain’ & “Freeform’ in Athregeum (postminart.org/athregeum
2010)
'Two Scenarios' in Streetcake Magazine Issue 3 (London 2009)
Reflecting the Market & Point of Sale in
ReForm (London 1999)
Web in Brought to Book (London 1994)
'Intercourse' in Arrival Press Spring Collection (Peterborough
1993)
'Estate' in Guardians of the State (Peterborough 1992)
My Local Police Stations in Te Elder Ure (Nijmegen
1983)
The Powers That Be in Block 6 (London 1982)
Looking at a Printed Page in Art Journal of America, Summer
1982 (New York 1982)
"Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Studio International
(London 1981)
The Artists International in History Workshop 6 (London
1979) & Block 1 (London 1979)
Looking at Buildings in Control 11 (London 1979)
Fragments From a Conversation in Kontexts 9/10 (Amsterdam
1977)
Art Delinquency Notes in Tracks Vol 2 No 3 (New York
1976)
Six Unknown Yet Influential Artists of the 1960s in Schmuck
5 (Cullompton 1975)
Poems in Second Aeon 19/21 (Cardiff 1974)
Poems in Vile 1 (San Francisco 1974)
Outgrowth in Archigram 9 (London 1970)
Softly-softly in Ark 44 (London 1969)
Request in Archigram 8 (London 1968)
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