Biographical history
1966-69 Exeter College of Art, Painting and Printmaking.
1973-76 Rolle College, Exmouth, Devon (B Ed).
1976-84 Assistant Director, Dyrons Art Centre, Devon.
1982-84 Lecturer, South Devon College.
1984-86 Director, Ryder’s Gallery, Dartington College of Art, Devon.
1988 Member of the Penwith Society of Artists.
1989 Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
1993 Elected on to the Council of Management, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall.
1993 Elected Committee Member, Newlyn Society of Artists.
1997/98 Visiting lecturer, Cheltenham College of Art.
2015 Became a represented artist on ideelart a virtual online organisation promoting Abstract and conceptual art worldwide (www.ideelart.com)
Publications, awards etc
2014 Exhibition Catalogue Campden Gallery.Catalogue Essay ‘The Anxious Object’ Graham Boyd.
ISBN:978-1-908753-23-6
2013 Exhibition Catalogue. New Craftsman St Ives.
Catalogue Essay ‘Jeremy Annear’ Mercedes Smith.
ISBN: 978-0-9926590-2-8
2013 Exhibition Catalogue. Messums London. Catalogue
Essay ‘Encounters with Beauty’ by Andrew Lambirth. ISBN: 978-1-908486-37-0. Publication No: CCCXLV
2012 Exhibition Catalogue. Campden Gallery. Catalogue Essay ‘A Kind of Music’ Ian Collins. Art Writer and
Curator. ISBN: 978-1-908753-07-6
2011 Exhibition Catalogue. Messums London. Catalogue essay
‘the Eye of the Spirit’ by Andrew Lambirth, Writer Critic and Curator. ISBN: 978-1-905883-93-6. Publication No: CCCI
2010 Exhibition Catalogue. Campden Gallery. Catalogue Essay ‘Forensic Traces’ by Andrew Lambirth.
ISBN: 978-0-9562719-4-5
2009 Exhibition Catalogue. Messums London. Forward by Nicho las Usherwood. Catalogue essay ‘Silent Harmonies’ Dr Jane
Hamilton. ISBN: 978-1-905883-44-8. Publication No:CCXLXII
2007 Exhibition catalogue, New Millennium Gallery (foreword by David Falconer).
2006/7 Interview ‘Jeremy Annear on European Modernism and
Cornish Art in the Eighties’, www.artcornwall.org
2004 Exhibition catalogue, New Millennium Gallery (foreword by James Aitchison and ‘The Meeting’, a poem written for the catalogue by Robert Vas Dias).
Catching the Wave: Contemporary Art and Artists in
Cornwall by Tom Cross (Published by Halsgrove 2002).
2002 Exhibition catalogue, ‘New Works’, Messums Contemporary.
2001 Galleries Review, ‘Showing in St Ives’, Petronilla Silver.
2000 Exhibition catalogue (foreword by Norbert Lynton),
Messum Contemporary.
1998/97 Exhibition catalogue, David Messum Gallery (foreword by John RusselTaylor).
1996 Drawing Towards the End of the Century, Newlyn Society of Artists Publication.
1994 St Ives Revisited – Innovators and Followers, by Peter Davis (Bakehouse Publications).
1991 Award Kreissparkasse, Bremen, Germany.
1991/92 DAAD Scholarship, (Atelierhaus Worpswede), Germany.
1991/92 Atelierhaus Worpswede (Worpswede Verlag).
Projects
2013 Co-ordinator and Curator of IMS Charity Auction at So theby’s London with Exhibitions at Falmouth Museum and Art Gallery and at Sotheby’s South Kensington London
2005-2007 Continuing studio-based collaboration with composer Jim Aitcheson.
2003-2005 Artsound.co.uk A collaboration with composer Jim Aitcheson, Coleridge Productions Andy Russo, The Coull Quartet and The Secconi Quartet.
Collections
Lazard Bros.
Ionian Trust.
The Royal Holloway Collection.
The Royal West of England Academy.
Listed in Who’s who in British Art and The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945