Born 1963.
Based in Porthmeor Studios. St.Ives
1982 - 6 BA (Hons) and Printmaking Prize.
Sunderland College of Art
1981 - 2 Foundation. Loughborough College of Art.
Solo Exhibitions and screenings
2024
The Days of the Future Stand Before Us. Harbour House. Kingsbridge, Devon. Opens 26/27 April
New Paintings and works on paper. Kestle Barton. Opens weekend Sept 7/8
2022
Men Falling (new single screen version) screened for 3 weeks at CAST.
Red River screened at Tate St Ives as part of Last Weekend event
2021
Looking For Ray, Part 3. Kestle Barton. September/October. New moving image commission and a sculpture selected from one of Ray Exworth’s studios.
Men Falling. Exeter Phoenix. Moving Image Film Commission, paintings and text works. September/November.
In Other Words. Commission. RAMM (Royal Albert memorial Museum), Exeter. September/November.
2019
New Work. Beaux Arts. Maddox Street, London. October/November.
Somebody Loves Us All. Bold Tendencies, Peckham. New film with writing by Ella Frears about service stations between London and Cornwall.
2018
All Going Nowhere Together. Commission for Groundwork. Collaboration with DJ Luke Vibert. September.
I Love Plymouth. Newlyn Art Gallery. The Picture Room. June/October.
2016
10 Kestle Barton. Three screen projection and works on paper.
Beaux Arts London (New Paintings and Works on Paper)
2014/15
‘Still Here’ . Newlyn Art Gallery (Film and paintings)
2013, 2011, 2009
Beaux Arts Bath (Paintings and Works on Paper)
2010, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999
Millennium Gallery, St.Ives (Paintings and Works on Paper)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
CLUSTER. Collaborative work with Alice mahoney and SJ Blackmore at CMR, Redruth. Oct 21st for FLAMM.
Pebble/Shoe. Kingsgate Project Space. London. September
I chose This. The Exchange. Jun - Oct
Sense of Place. Willoughby gallery. Lincolnshire. August
We Are Floating In Space. The Exchange and Newlyn Gallery. Feb - Jun
Bridge the Tamar. Mirror Gallery. Plymouth. March - May
2021/2022
Thanks For The Apples. Falmouth Art gallery. Nov/Jan
2021
Red River. Film Commission for Exeter University. Collaboration with poet John Wedgwood Clarke and composer Rob Mackay.
Shown at CAST in Cornwall and at COP 26.
Forced Collaboration. Auction House. Redruth. Cornwall.
2020
Watercolour Challenge. Instagram show curated by Lindsey Mendick and Rafal Zajko.
Mariner. Touring show - The Arts Institute, Plymouth. The Andrew Brownsword Gallery, University of Bath.
John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton - cancelled (Covid).
2019
Many & Beautiful Things. Plymouth College of Art Gallery. July/September.
The World As Yet Unseen. Falmouth Art gallery. April/June.
2018 / 19
Many & Beautiful Things. Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange.
2017
Ideal Science - A Risographic Survey. The Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery.
INK Miami Art Fair
Plymouth Contemporary open, The Arts Institute, Plymouth.
St Ives Beaux Arts London
Screening of Study in Hindsight and The Proposal at the Future Imperfect Symposium. Plymouth University.
2016
All Out of Love – New film ‘The Proposal’ selected for Tate Screening.
Exeter Contemporary Open. Exeter Phoenix - award winner.
2015
Plymouth Contemporary Open. Plymouth University.
INK Miami Art Fair
Falmouth Art gallery Porthmeor Past and Present
2014
Collage Wilson Stephens. London.
Curatorial Projects and Other Activities
2023
Nominated for Jarman Award for work with moving image. London Film.
Commissioned to make the trophy for the longest worm at the Worm Charming Championships in Falmouth.
Shame, that a curatorial project presenting new work by Dean Knight at 3 Porthmeor Studios April.
2013 – 23
Work appears regularly on cover of London Review of Books
2021
Thanks For The Apples. Falmouth Art Gallery. Curated with Ben Sanderson and featuring work by Yemi Awosile, Caragh Thuring, Katie Schwab, Georgia Gendall, Marie Toseland, Daniel Sinsel, Nic Deshayes, Ben Sanderson and I. Publication available from Falmouth Art Gallery.
For Hospital Rooms at Bethlem Royal Hospital. Commissioned to paint the dining room of the Mother and Baby Unit.
2019
SCENES. New work by seven invited artists in the Picture Room, Newlyn Art gallery.
Break Us Gently. New work by three invited artists. Porthmeor Studios.
2018
All Going Nowhere Together. Commission For Groundwork - performance of 40 cars to tracks by Luke Vibert on a radio station made for one day - Nowhere FM - Redruth, Cornwall.
Co-curate and host Moving Image and Experimental Film Night for Fine Art and Film students from Falmouth University.
2017
Invited to co-curate Late at Tate – a summer night of dance and performance.
Select and present work by four artists in a sound show. Porthmeor Studios, St Ives.
Co-curate and host Moving Image and Experimental Film Night for Fine Art and Film students from Falmouth University
Appear in Tate Britain’s Great British Walks with Gus Casely-Hayford and Miriam Margolyes. Sky Arts
2016
Film Study In Hindsight wins award at Exeter Contemporary Open.
Initiate and co-host A Long Weekend of Uncertainty - an interdisciplinary residency at Kestle Barton.
Co-curate and host The Voyeurs – Screening of a programme of selected films.
Study in Hindsight selected by Lux for Side by Side screening event.
2015
Organise, select and present an exhibition of four artists (Strepitus Crepitus Fragor) in St Ives.
Co-found LDM, a monthly discussion group with artists and curators.
Start Printmaking for Boys - irregular printmaking sessions for contemporary artists (not just boys!).
2014
Article published in issue 14 of Turps Banana.
2013
Sketch Open, Winner of Fine Art editioning prize – Rabley Contemporary
Selected for The Cornwall Workshop – A forum for dialogue and exchange with international artists, writers and curators, Kestle Barton.
Publications / Catalogues
2022
Thanks For The Apples. Designed by Theo Inglis.
2021
Men Falling. Risograph publication. Introduction by Matt Burrows and Essay by Tom Jeffreys. Poem by Ella Frears. Designed by Alice Mahoney and Anje Jager.
Looking For Ray, Part 3. Small publication. Writing by Amy Tobin and Karen Townshend. Design by Joe Townshend.
2019
New Work. Beaux Arts. Essay by Alice Spawls.
2017
Plymouth Contemporary Open
2016
Exeter Contemporary Open
10. Kestle Barton. Risograph by Joe Townshend (with still from film and a poem by Ella Frears) .
Beaux Arts. Essay by Simon Garfield
2015
Newlyn Art gallery Still Here. Essay by Blair Todd
Plymouth Contemporary Open
2013
Interview by Mark Osterfield
Porthmeor Studios & Cellars. The Architects’ Story. By MJ Long
2011
Essay by Aidan Quinn
2010
Essay by Gill Nicol (Head of Interaction, Arnolfini Gallery)
Art and Graft. FT Weekend Magazine
2009
Artists Studios. MJ Long
Essay by Elizabeth Knowles CBE (Also essay 2003)
2008
Emma Thomas. Telegraph Magazine
2007
Art Now Cornwall, Essay by Susan Daniel-McElroy, (Director Tate St Ives)
On the Very Edge of the Ocean, Ben Tufnell, Tate Publications
Work in Education and Residencies
2022 - present
Associate lecturer in Fine Art at University College Falmouth.
2023
2 month residency at CMR, Redruth.
2022
Britten Pears Arts. Red Studio. May.
2021
Print workshop at Royal Bethlem Hospital, Beckenham for Hospital Rooms.
2020
Live printmaking workshop for Hospital Rooms.
2017
Printmaking/redacting/collage workshop during Palace of Culture Newlyn Gallery
2016 / 2017
Visiting lecturer School of Film and Television. Falmouth University
2015
Lecture as part of Visiting Artists Series. Plymouth University
2013
MA Lecture Series. University College Falmouth
2011
Residency, Kestle Barton
Visiting lecturer, BA Fine Art, University College Falmouth
1993-2021
Tate St.Ives. Leads practical sessions, special events and talks
1995-2023
Newlyn Art Gallery – Involved in devising and leading courses including printmaking and Drawing a painting
2007 – 2017
Falmouth Art Gallery. Leading printmaking courses
Collections include
Government Art Collection
Kestle Barton
Pallant House
Wilson Collection
University College Falmouth
Falmouth Art Gallery
Sunderland University
Cornwall Council
Royal Cornwall Museum
Slaughter and May
Selected Other Activity (pre 2013)
2011
Art In Cornwall BBC Four
2010
Art and Graft FT Weekend Magazine, photos by Rosie Hallam
2009
Filmed for Memory Bay as featured artist
Interviewed for ARD, German radio
2008
Telegraph Magazine. Photographed by Paul Massey and interview by Emma Thomas
Featured artist in film by Ray Bird about Porthmeor Studios
Featured in Merian German magazine
Photographed by Max Edelman
Photographed by Andreas Sterzing
Photographed by Gary Treadwell
2006
Coast, BBC One
Subject of Process a film by Stuart Lansdowne
2004
Guardian Artist of the Month
Cover of Guardian Supplement Living on the Edge