Art is art. Everything else is everything else. — Ad Reinhardt
”I studied Communication Design at the faculty of art and design of a London polytechnic, followed by Education at a teacher training college and a university. For many years I was a university lecturer, and now work independently as a visual artist and writer.
I produce artworks in various media, having solo exhibitions in Germany and Portugal, as well as the UK.
Since 2014, I have been using digital technology to produce a portfolio of abstract artworks. Some of these artworks are now available as limited edition prints.
The 'Large Prints' were created in vector software at an Apple desktop computer. Stylistically, they are Constructivist and Minimalist, and occasionally Conceptual. They are all in two large formats, each in a small edition, and consequently for sale at higher prices.
In addition, I have produced artworks using apps on a phone or tablet. Drawing and painting is achieved with a stylus and sometimes a finger. It is a more freewheeling approach, and while Constructivism and Minimalism continue, the influence of Abstract Expressionism and Psychedelia can also be seen in some of this work. These 'Small Prints' are in longer editions at lower prices.
I am also exhibiting here the three artworks I produced during the first UK lockdown, four images from my ongoing series of self portraits, and a gallery of some recent work.
Exhibition of photographs, Luz Brilhante: Fotografias Do Algarve E Da Inglaterra (Bright Light: Photographs from Algarve and England), Museu Municipal, Faro, Portugal
2014TextSpaces, concrete poems and constructive art, Kunsthaus Rehau, Germany
2014Romeinaround: photographs from today's Rome, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
2013A Selection from Bright Side Up, DepARTures gallery, East Midlands Airport, Derby
2012Bright Side Up, colour photographs, Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor
2011Bright Side Up and French Windows, University Centre, Milton Keynes (UCMK)
2010French Windows, colour photographs, De Montfort University, Leicester
2007French Windows, colour photographs, De Montfort Hall, Leicester (The City Gallery, Leicester: offsite programme)
2005Bright Side Up, colour photographs, De Montfort University, Leicester
2004Bright Side Up, colour photographs, Evington Park Visitor Centre, Leicester (The City Gallery, Leicester: offsite programme)
2003People Picking, colour photographs, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham
2003An Abstract For All Libraries and Three Pieces Under Glass, installations, Barbican Library, Barbican Centre, London
2001The Low Life Series: colour photographs , East Midlands Arts, Loughborough
1999SOLOrepartee, installations, graphics, photographs, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
1998Live Art Event and Installation, Letters Of Invitation, and solo show, Textology, The Poetry Café, Covent Garden, London— featured in The ArtClub broadcast by CNN International (13 showings worldwide)
1998Inside Broadcasts (television and video installations), The Arbor Darkrooms and Gallery, Derby
1997An Abstract For All Libraries, installation, North West Arts Board, Liverpool (part of Visionfest 6: Sense)
1996Censorship Communications, installation, The Liver Building, Liverpool (part of Visionfest: Art, Lies and Documentation)
1996Textology, The Mary Ward Centre, London
Self Portraits in the online exhibition London Biennale 2020: Masks, Mirages, and the Morphic Mirror
2020Selected for an artist’s booth at CADAF online (Contemporary and Digital Art Fair), plus represented in the booth of .Art (Art Domains)
2016As part of The Lo-Vie Connection with Elisabeth Rass, The Lost World, selected by jury for presentation at the Media Art Fair, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany
2016Represented in Gastspiel, a Biennale Austria exhibition at Galerie am Färberbach, Steinbach an der Steyr, Austria
2015Represented in The International Exhibition, Douanehuisje, Maassluis, the Netherlands
2015Represented in Wish You Were Here? artists’ postcards, MAC, Birmingham and Hestercombe House, Somerset (Art Circuit touring exhibition)
2014Represented in Wish You Were Here? artists’ postcards, The Atkinson, Southport (Art Circuit touring exhibition)
2014Represented in The Postcard is a Public Work of Art, X Marks the Bökship, London
2012Represented in The Artists’ Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol
2011Represented in Concept as Concrete Form: Visual Poetry, Texts and Typography, School of Arts, Design and Technology, University of Derby
2006Represented in Snapping Little Britain, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, London
2005Represented in The Art of Words, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke
2005Represented in HypeGallery, the internet gallery of Les Rencontres d’Arles festival, France
2004Two Person Show, Back To Back (Bright Side Up, colour photographs), De Montfort Hall, Leicester (The City Gallery, Leicester: offsite programme)
2002Represented in Bathos, Space Station Sixty-Five, East Dulwich, London
1999Represented in Directory, Q Gallery, Derby
1998Video Installation, rollingroundthegallery, exhibited at Rethinking The Avant Garde, Phoenix Arts, Leicester
1996Represented in Conflict, The Coventry Gallery, London
1992Represented in The Beauty In Breathing, The Convention Center, Miami Beach
1990Represented in Word As Image, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1989Represented in Word As Image, The Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988Represented in Air Mail, Air Gallery, London & Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Included in Leeds Postcards (by Christine Hankinson and Craig Oldham, Four Corners Books, London)
2014Included in The Postcard is a Public Work of Art (X Marks the Bökship, London)
2012Included in Artists' Postcards: A Compendium (by Jeremy Cooper, Reaktion Books, London)
1995Included in War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two (edited by Pat Kirkham and David Thoms, Lawrence and Wishart, London)
1992Homage to Imagism (edited by William Pratt and Robert Richardson, AMS Press, New York
1986Work reproduced and discussed in The Origin of Writing (by Roy Harris, Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford, Duckworth, London
1980During the 1980s: Four designs published by Leeds Postcards
Concrete Poetry/Text Based Art: The Australian National Gallery; British Museum; The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, University of Iowa; Kunsthaus Rehau, Germany; National Poetry Library, London; Chelsea College of Arts library, London; University College London library
Photography: De Montfort University, Leicester; Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
