Artist

Education

2008 Birmingham School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art (2.1)

2005 Warwickshire College, Foundation Art and Design

2002 University of Birmingham, BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

Selected Installed Works

May 2010 Private collection, 'Solstice'

April 2010 Newdale Primary School Telford, a series of steel sculptures installed outside the main building entrance

June 2009 Festival of High Temperatures, Wroclaw, Poland 'Aniol'

Awards

July 2008 Graduate bursary from the Ironbridge Museum of Steel Sculpture to attend their summer cast iron sculpture workshop

January 2007 National Runner up in 2007 Noilly Prat Prix de la Sculpture

July 2007 Winner of a competition run by Bovis Homes to design a site specific sculpture for a new development in Nether Hall Park, Birmingham.

Residencies

Spring 2010 I ran a series of workshops at Newdale Primary School in Telford, as part of a school-wide project, culminating in the installation of a set of 7 steel lizard sculptures

September 2009 Mould-line supervisor for the International Cast Iron Sculpture Workshop hosted by the Gdansk Fine Art Academy in Poland

July 2009 Part of the resident foundry crew at the Museum of Steel Sculpture in Ironbridge for a special 4 week workshop held to mark the Coalbrookdale 300 celebrations. This project was featured on BBC television (Countryfile Aug9th 2009)

May 2009. Visiting artist (cast iron sculpture) at the Festival of High Temperatures hosted by the Wroclaw Fine Arts Academy in Poland