Biography:

1951 Born Birkenhead, Merseyside
1968-70 Laird School of Art, Birkenhead
1970-73 Bristol Polytechnic, Faculty of Art and Design
1975-98 Various grants and awards from Arts Associations
1991 Senior Abbey Award in Painting at the British School in Rome for 1992
2000 I.C.C.D. studio residency in Trivandrum, Southern India.
2003 Arts Council England, Travel Award
2003 International Fellowship award at the Vermont Studio Center, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1973 Bristol Art Centre
1979 Corpus Christi College, Oxford
1980 Liverpool Academy
1981 South Hill Park Bracknell, touring to Sunderland Arts Centre, The Minories Colchester.
1982 The Roundhouse, London
1984-88 Artweek, Oxford
1987 Basle Art Fair
1988 Gallery, Cardiff
1988

Austin Desmond Fine Art, London

1989 Nerlino Gallery, New York
1990 Nerlino Gallery, New York
1991 Allan Art Singapore
1991 Austin Desmond Fine Art , London
1992 British School, Rome
1994 Jill George Gallery, London
1995 Kunsthaus Lubeck, Germany
1995 Powell Moya Partnership, London
1995 Jill George Gallery, London - Small Works
1995-96 'The Green Room and other Paintings' - Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead - a semi-retrospective show travelling to the Jill George Gallery, London and Brighton Art Gallery and Museum
1997 'The Green Room' Brighton Fringe Festival
1997 The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
1998 Rivington Gallery, London.
1999 Straight to Red, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
2000 Straight to Red, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
2000 'Small works for the Comfort Station,' The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2001 Light Sweet Crude, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
2004 "Graham Dean Project", Blanch House, Brighton
2004 "Shimmer", Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
2004 Maltby Gallery, Winchester
2004 'Art of the 20th Century' Armoury, New York
2005 'Thinking Bodies' Waterhouse & Dodd, London
2006 'Above and Below' Galerie Frans Jacobs/Judith Bouknegt, Paris and Amsterdam
2007 'White Noise'Waterhouse & Dodd, London

2008

2009

2010

'Fragile lessons',  Kunsthandel Frans Jacobs , Hilversum , The Netherlands

'Two Artists/Two Worlds' , Kunst en Cultuur, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands

'Sleepers' Waterhouse and Dodd , London

Selected Mixed Exhibitions:

1976 British Realists, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1977 Del Naviglio Gallery, Milan
1977 Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1978 'Art for Society', Whitechapel Art Gallery
1978 'Art for Society', Ulster Museum, Belfast
1979 Grandes et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Grand Palais, Paris
1979 Critics Choice, London
1980 John Moores 12, Liverpool
1981 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1981 Leiden Museum, Holland
1981 The Real British, Fischer Fine Art, London
1981 Ostermalm Gallery, Stockholm
1981 Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1982 Alternative Tate, Paton Gallery and Artscribe Magazine, London
1982 Arnold Katzen Gallery, New York
1982 Art and the Sea, ICA London and Liverpool Academy and Sunderland Arts Centre
1983 Cartwright Hall, Bradford
1987 Athena Art Awards, Barbican London
1987 The Self Portrait, Artsite Gallery Bath, and Museum Touring Exhibition
1988-97 ''Paintings for the Sky' Goethe Institute - Museum Touring exhibition to seven major museums in Japan, then to museumsin Munich,Paris, Dusseldorf, Moscow,Hamburg, Lisbon, Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Turin, Rome, EXPO 92 Seville, Kassel Documenta Halls, Montreal,Sydney,Chile,Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Sao Paulo.
1990 The Spectator Art Awards, Scottish Gallery, London
1993 Heads - Canterbury Museum and Ipswich Museum
1997 Royal Academy - Summer Show
1997 Critics Choice (Clare Henry), Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh
1997 Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts London
1998 Bilder Fur Den Himmel,Halle Victor Hugo, Luxemburg-Llimpertsberg
1998 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1998 White Gallery, Brighton
1999 The Print Show - Barbican Art Centre
1999 Royal Academy - Summer Show
1999 Summer Show - Stephen Lacey Gallery
1999 Pure Paint - Stephen Lacey Gallery
2000 'The World According to Great Britain', Odapark, Venray, Holland
2000 'Art London' Chelsea, London
2000 Gallery Artists 2000 - Stephen Lacey Gallery
2000 'Display Heads' - Millennium project, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham.
2001 Art London, Chelsea, London
2001 Strip, National Portrait Gallery, ,London.
2001 Festival Art (Prints), Edinburgh Festival
2002 Small Works - Stephen Lacey Gallery
2003 Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands
2003 Art 2003, BDC, Isington, London
2003 Art London, Chelsea London
2004 Art 2004, BDC, Islington, London
2005 Palm Beach 3 Fair, Palm Beach, Florida
2005  TEFAF Maastricht Art Fair
2006 Pan Art Fair, Amsterdam
2006
Singer & Frielander/Sunday Times watercolour competition
2006
'Weltanschauung' Palermo,Sicily and New York.

2007

2006/7/8

'Weltanschauung' Hiroshima, Peking, Moscow, Berlin, Paris and Buenos Aires

TETAF Maasrict art fair

Collections include:

 

Arthur Anderson

  Meryll Lynch
  Contemporary Arts Society
  Arts Council
  V&A Museum, watercolour collection
  National Gallery of Jamaica
  Forbes Foundation, New York
  Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam
  ING Art Collection, Amsterdam
  Dundee Museum and Art Gallery
  David Geffen, L.A.
  Anita and Gordon Roddick collection
  The Body Shop International
  Peter Gabriel/Real World studios
  Nigel Gee
  Southern Arts
  Musik-Und Kongresshalle, Lubeck
  Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead
  Glasgow Museum of Modern Art
  Simmons and Simmons, London
 

GE Club, Great Eastern Hotel, London

 

Ferens Museum and Art Gallery, Hull

Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek, Holland

Royal Bank of Scotland

Films include:

1979 'Copy' (music by David Rhodes)
1981 'Undercurrents' (music by Peter Gabriel)
1983 'Any Special Peculiarities' (music by David Rhodes)
1985 'Breaking the Surface' (music Barry Guy)
1991 'Paintings 1987-1990' (music by David Rhodes)
1992 'Mamatoto' (music by various artists)
1993 'Solsbury Hill' with Peter Gabriel
1997 'Surfacing' (Commission for The Pier, Meridian Television)
Sets and Films with dancer/choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller
1984 ' No Go Zone'
1985 'Breaking the Surface' (Channel Four Television)
1991 'Virtual Reality' (London Contemporary Dance)
1996 ' White Picket Fence' (Phoenix Dance)

Books:

1986 Roald Dahl : 'Two Fables' (Viking)
1988 Roald Dahl : 'La Princesse et le Braconnier' (Gallimard)
1988 Steven Berkoff : 'America' (Hutchinson)
1977 Elizabeth Smart : 'A Bonus' (Polytantric Press)
1979 Roger McGough : 'Holiday on Death Row' (Cape)
1981 Roger McGough : 'Strictly Private: Anthology' (Puffin Plus)
1986 Roger McGough : ' Kingfisher Book of Comic Verse (Kingfisher)
1987 Roger McGough : 'Selected Poems 1967-1987' (Cape)
1974 Woody Guthrie : 'Bound for Glory'  

Misc:

1983

1983 ' Painting by Radio' BBC Radio 4

1987

Letterhead for Real World Studios and Peter Gabriel Ltd.

1988

Banner for Amnesty International ('Liberty')