Biography & CV

I regularly exhibit across the North West and beyond.

2024

‘Inspired by Manchester’, pop-up group exhibition, Neighbourhood Gallery, Sale, Manchester, 9 Feb – 2 March 2024

‘Surface Challenge’ group exhibition, with Printmakers Council, Barbican Library, 2 – 26 Feb 2024

2023

‘Borderlines’, MA final degree show, Middlesex University, December 2023

‘Inspired By’ group exhibition, with Printmakers Council, Emma Mason Gallery, Eastbourne, Oct / Nov 2023

‘Reclaiming’, solo show, as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2023, Holborn Library, October 2023

‘Present Continuous’ group exhibition, Middlesex University, September 2023

‘Spectrum 3’, group exhibition, Didsbury Parsonage, Manchester, August 2023

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 13 June – 20 August 2023.

‘Fankle 01’ group exhibition, Coningsby Gallery 10 – 15 July. Member of the new Fankle Art Collective.

‘What If?’ group exhibition at Filet, Hoxton, March 2023.

‘Thinking for Printing’ at Bankside Gallery, a PMC group exhibition, Jan / Feb 2023.

2022

‘Surface and Depth’ at Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich, a PMC group show, Oct / Nov 2022.

(re)FLEX group exhibition at Filet, Hoxton, April 2022.

‘Verdant’ group exhibition at Mile End Art Pavilion, London, July 2022.

MA in Fine Art Printmaking at Middlesex University (Jan 2022 – Dec 2023, part-time)

2021 / 2020

Impressions exhibition at Towneley Hall, Burnley, group show with Prospect Printmakers, Sept 2020 – March 2021 (extended due to pandemic closures) and online here. Please enter via the door ahead on the left!

Longitude Gallery, Clitheroe, featured my panopticon series of linocuts in the gallery, their website and the new Easel site. 

2019

Bury Art Museum, ‘Land’ exhibition from May to July, with Prospect Printmakers.

Longitude Gallery, Clitheroe ‘ArtWalk Clitheroe’, March

Ran a series of linocut workshops with Cate Gibson at The Didsbury Parsonage, February 2019. 

Twitter Art Exhibition – ‘Above Ullswater’ (linocut) was selected as a ‘Board’s Choice’.

2018

Until February, exhibition at Chorlton’s World Peace Café

Macmillan Cancer Support Centre commission of a large linocut called ‘Serenity’ for Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.

The Whitaker, Rawtenstall Pennine exhibition with Prospect Printmakers, April to June, then Longitude Gallery, from 1 December.

The second ‘Spectrum’ exhibition at Didsbury Parsonage, October / November

Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Lake District, group exhibition October / November 2018

Artwork on the Hot Bed Press stand in October at the Manchester Art Fair

Ran a linocut workshop for Macmillan’s Craft & Chat group at Wythenshawe Hospital, September.

North Wales Print Fair in Llandudno, November

2017

Warrington Contemporary Open in September / October 2017.

Stockport Open art exhibition, July – September 2017

Bury Art Museum ‘Feared and Fanciful Futures’ exhibition, January – July 2017

Clitheroe’s Longitude Gallery exhibition of Prospect Printmakers’ work

World Peace Café exhibition with fellow artist and printmaker Cate Gibson, Dec 2017 – Feb 2018 in Chorlton, Manchester

Ran linocut printmaking on fabric workshop in the Lake District, September 2017.

2016

Manchester Print Fair, Manchester Cathedral,  July.

‘Barn Owl’ (linocut) published in a book of printmakers’ owls called ‘The Elegant Fowl’.

2015

‘Spectrum’ show at The Didsbury Parsonage, February 2015 with fellow artists Anne Mackinnon, Malcolm Allum and Janet Higgins.

2014 and earlier exhibitions

Bury Art Gallery’s show ‘Prospect Prints’ in February 2014 and November 2013 both included my work. In 2013, 2012 and 2011, I had original prints in Stockport Art Gallery’s Open Contemporary Exhibition. 5 pieces of my work were included in An Talla Solais gallery’s ‘Lasting Impressions’ exhibition of contemporary printmaking in Ullapool, Scotland in March / April 2013.

I took part in the Didsbury Arts Festival in September 2011 with the Craft Café at the Northern Tennis Club and ‘Art over the Counter’ at Didsbury’s fantastic Cheese Hamlet, alongside fellow artist Cathy Ferns.

Regular events

I have contributed artwork to the Twitter Art Exhibit from 2017 until 2022 and written a number of artist blog posts for Twitter Art Exhibit on a voluntary basis in 2021 / 2022.

Since 2011, I’ve taken part in the annual ’20:20 Print Exchange’ and its touring exhibitions, organised by Hot Bed Press.