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Photo - John Coombes

- Selected Exhibitions

- Current - House of Fairy Tales, Millenium Gallery, St Ives.

- Current - 'Assembling bodies - Art, Science & Imagination' - Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge University.

- Current - 'Visual Illusions' - Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

- December 2010 - Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London - 'Horn of Plenty', House of Fairy Tales.

- February 2009 - A22 Gallery, Budapest, Kinetica - 'Creatures Great and Small'

- October 2008 - Rove, Hoxton, London, Kinetica - 'Creatures Great and Small'.

- August 2008- Flowers East, London - 'Domestic Appliance'

- February 2007- Represented by Kinetica at Form London, Olympia,

- November 2007- Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, and the Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness.

- June 07 - Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition

- March 07- Kinetica Museum, London. Solo Exhibition -'Soundbites & The Untuned Eye' -

National Touring Solo exhibition which opened at the JD Fergusson Gallery in Perth in 2005 as a result of the JD Fergusson Award, and Toured to The Shire hall Gallery, Stafford, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, York College Gallery and Forge Mill Museum, Redditch.

- October - Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames - Joint Exhibition,

- January 2004 - Oxo Tower, London.

- March 2003 - The Medici Gallery, London.

- 2001 - 2003 - National Touring Exhibition - 'In - art - iculate',

- 2001 - 2003 - National Touring Exhibition - ' Coming to our Senses'

- April 1999 - Scottish Galleries, Edinburgh -'Wind Up'

- September 1998 - Gallerie Claude Andre, Belgium.

- February 1998 - 'Devious Devices' Touring kinetic exhibition based on objects chosen by

Terry Gilliam.

- September 1997 - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh - 'Moving Things'

- July 1996 - Grosvenor Museum, Chester - 'Jitterbugs'

- January 1995 - The V&A, London.

- November 1993 - Scottish Society of Artists.

- June 1992 - Economist Building, London.

 

- Awards

- 2005 JD Fergusson Award

- 2008 Juliet Gomperts Trust Award

 

- Commissions

- March 2009 - Atrium Commission - Museum of Anatomy and Anthropology, Cambridge University

- March 2008 - Bristol Royal Hospital for Children - Stairwell Commission

- October - January 2008 - Commission to build wind sculpture for Nova Hreod school, Swindon.

- January, february 2006- Collaboration with 'Faulty Optic' on Orpheus in the Underworld in association with Opera North.

- August 2006 - 'I know why the caged bird sings' Mechanical Sculpture- Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

- July 2005 - 'S6' kinetic sculpture- Wilson Stuart School, Birmingham

- November 2004 - Sound Sculptures, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

- November 2004 - 'Ignite' Chain reaction fire sculpture with Matt Harling at artworks MK, Milton Keynes.

- November 2003 - 'Ignite' with Matt Harling at artworks MK.

- September 2003 - 'Curve', Suspended Sculptures, Firth Park College, Sheffield.

- July 2002 - 'Boy in a Fish' kinetic sculpture, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford

- February 2002 - 'Life on Earth' Interactive installation, New Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

- June 2001 - 'Red Herring' , Woodend Museum, Scarborough.

 

Lecturing

07-09 Nottingham University, BA Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer

 

Education

- 1991 - BA hons Middlesex University

- 1990 - Placements

- Bezalel College of Art, Jerusalem

- Tim Hunkin, Suffolk

- Jim Whiting, London

 

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