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List of Exhibitions
  2006 Things we lost in the fire Transition, London, curated by Gordon Dalton
  2006 Ruth Claxton and Amy Marletta The Collective, Edinburgh
  2006 Drawing Links The Drawing Room, London selected by Helen Legg
  2006 Brownfields Lounge, London
  2005 Zoo Art Fair LOT, London
  2005 The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition LOT, Bristol, curated by James Ireland
  2005 Orphan Vane Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
  2005 Globalocal NAB, Birmingham, curated by Kenny Schachter
  2005 All at once and all together at the same time Colony, Birmingham
  2005 (dis)comfort Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (catalogue)
  2004 XS fa Projects, London
  2004 The Doppler Effect part 1 (collaboration with Sandra Bridie) Ocular Lab, Melbourne
  2004 Pilot 1 Limehouse Town Hall, London, nominated by Helen Legg
  2004 Crystal Peaks S1 Projects, Sheffield, curated by Michelle Cotton S1 Projects, Sheffield, curated by Michelle Cotton
  2004 Commonground Artsway, Hampshire
  2003 Wunderkammer Custard Factory, Birmingham
  2003 We are Relentless Custard Factory, Birmingham
  2003 Site Specific Installation Museum of Art and Antiquities, Khartoum, Sudan
  2003 Mostyn 13 Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
  2003 East International 2003 Norwich, England
  2003 Cultivate Oak House, West Bromwich - commissioned site specific piece and workshops
  2002 The Show 1 RCA, London
  2002 Art in the Garden Chelsea Physic Garden, Lon
  2001 One day all this will be yours RCA London
  2001 Incorporated Atrium Gallery, Embankment Place, London
  2000 Young Sculptors from the West Midlands Jerwood Sculpture Park, Whitley Court
  2000 I am Big I am Oscar (solo show) Space Banana, Birmingham

Educational History
2000 - 2002 MA Sculpture
Royal College of Art
London
England

1990 - 1993 BA Hons Fine Art
NottinghamTrent University
England


Awards/Scholarships
2005 Arts Council England
Grants for the Arts Award
2004 Arts Council England
Grants for the Arts Award
2003 - 2004 Arts Council England
Creative Ambition Award
2002 Lattice Award
cross college award for MA show
2000 - 2002 Bursary, RCA
London
2000 Creative Ambition Award
West Midlands Arts
1994 Artists in Schools Award
East Midlands Art

Collections
Zabludowicz Collection
Various private collections
Mary Jane Aladren and Glen Davis
Lattice Group Collection

Publications
2005 Trading places
Article [an] collection series
2005 The Rudiments of Ornamental Composition’
David Trigg, a-n Magazine (Newcastle), May
2005 Rudiments of Ornamental Composition
Art Monthly (London), May
2005 I thought I was the Audience and then I looked at You’
catalogue, essay by Helen Legg,
2004 December Artists Story
[an] magazine (december)
2003 East International
Sotiris Kyriacou, Contemporary (London), issue 56
Mostyn13 catalogue
Metro
Tues April 8th (Wunderkammer)
Garden Design Journal
December 2002⁄Jan 2003
(Art in the Garden)

Teaching
2005 Lecturer
BA Visual Arts, MA Visual Arts
University of Central England
Birmingham
2002 - 2005 Lecturer Foundation Art and Design
University of Central England
Birmingham

Artist in Residence
2005 The Doppler Effect – The Questions Archive’
Residency with Kelly Large
Ocular Lab, Melbourne


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