Educated at Falcon College, Esigodini, before gaining design experience in printing and publishing houses in Africa and Mauritius. Studied at Winchester School of Art.
Curatorial
2021 CONNECT: people, art and place, The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury
2019 Drawn, The Young Gallery, Salisbury (in partnership with Linn O’Carroll)
2018 Cicatrix Imprimé, Galerie L’Atelier Circulaire, Montreal
2018 Cicatrix last tour Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
2018 Cicatrix, Black Swan, Frome
2017 Hommage a Salisbury Plain, Salisbury International Arts Festival Artist: Catherine Farish, Quebec
2017 Cicatrix, The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant
2016 Cicatrix Call & Response, Salisbury International Arts Festival, The Homestead featuring Caro Williams, Aukland
2015 The Plant Project, Young Gallery, Salisbury - exhibiting artists: Julia Atkinson, Julie Ayton, John Bellany, Catherine Bloomfield, Henny Burnett, Prunella Clough, Mat Collishaw, Michael Cullimore, Fran Donovan, Susan Francis, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Gary Hume, Caroline Hyman, Prudence Maltby, Linn O’ Carroll, John Piper, Keith Rand, Peter Randall-Page, Robin Tanner, Stephen Tennant
2014 Cicatrix, The Atrium, Trowbridge
2014 Cicatrix, Young Gallery, Salisbury
2011 Made to Last (in association with Ruth Facey) The Cloisters, Salisbury Cathedral. a craft exhibition commissioned by Salisbury International Arts Festival, exploring wooden shoe lasts by artists and makers across the country. Artists included: Melissa Cole, Michael Brennan-Wood, David Whatley, Robert Race, Matthew Burt,Syann van Niftrik Fran Donovan, Penny Burnfield, Julian Worrall Hood, James Morton-Evans,Helen Ganly, Deborah Sweeney, Daphne Wright, Susan Francis
2010/2011 The Other Worlds Project, Young Gallery, Salisbury, in joint partnership with Young Gallery Curator, Peter Riley, and in association with The Imperial War Museum. Other Worlds, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund, V&A, Art Fund and Wiltshire Council, involved coordinating the project and curating shows with serving soldiers, their artist mentors and invited artists:
Ewan Clayton & Arabella Dorman, Fran Donovan, Richard Hoare, Steve Pratt and Jeff Walker
2010 When You Go Away, Young Gallery, Salisbury. An installation of thousands of clay figures representing absent parents in the Armed Forces, made by the children of 8 garrison schools. This schools project was supported by HLF and Wiltshire Council
2006/2008 Member of TAP, curatorial team delivering the exhibition programme for Salisbury Arts Centre. Artists included: Tim Harrisson, Gary Breeze, Chris Riisager, Mychael Barrett, Ursula Leach
Exhibitions
2021 Opening the Aviary, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover (with Jon Adams, Kate MccGwire and Rosa Beiroa), curated by Susan Francis
2021 Staring From A Thousand Yards, Pound Arts, Corsham, (Solo show)
2020 Housebound, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover, curated by Susan Francis
2019 Drawn, The Young Gallery, Salisbury
2018 Cicatrix Imprime, Atelier Circulaire Montreal, Canada
2018 Cicatrix, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Wiltshire
2017 Cicatrix, The Spring Arts & Heritage, Havant
2016 A Common Thread, Trowbridge Arts
2016 Cicatrix Call & Response, The Rifles Museum, The Close Salisbury
2016 Salisbury Cathedral Magna Carta
2015 The Plant Project, Young Gallery, Salisbury
2014 Cicatrix, The Young Gallery, Salisbury
2014 Lost, Dr Michele Whiting’s exhibition, SAC Salisbury
2014 Cicatrix, The Atrium, Trowbridge
2013 Bristol Affordable Art Fair
2013 Collectors' Tracks, Urmson Burnett Gallery, Salisbury with Henny Burnett
2011 Other Worlds, Young Gallery, Salisbury and touring
2010 House of Fairy Tales, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, a project set up by Gavin Turk and Deborah Curtis
2009 L'Usine Gallery, Salisbury. Joint exhibition of paintings with Chris Edwick
2009 Landscape Unearthed, John Leach Gallery, Langport (Solo show)
2009 Salisbury Arts Centre, National Drawing Open
2009 Leaden Hall, Salisbury. Group show
2007 Venerating the Vessel, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury. Commissioned exhibition of paintings shown with ceramics created by potter, Julie Ayton
2006 Small Pictures Open, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury
2006 The Playhouse, Salisbury. Group show
2005 Bettles Gallery, New Forest. Group show
1998 The Gallery, Dorchester. Gallery artists show
1993 National Gallery, Zimbabwe. Illustrators Open
1991 Gallerie Helene de Senneville, Mauritius. Group show
1990 National Gallery, Zimbabwe. Graphics Open
1988 Gallery Delta, Harare. Gallery artists show
1987 National Gallery, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Open
Awards/Prizes
2017 Havant Borough Council
2014 Arts Council England
2010 National Drawing Open, Salisbury. Prizewinner.
2006 Small Pictures Open, Salisbury. Overall Prizewinner.
1993 Illustration Open, National Gallery, Zimbabwe. First Prize.
1990 Zimbabwe Open, National Gallery, Zimbabwe. Award of Merit.
1987 Graphics Open, National Gallery, Zimbabwe. First Prize.
Residencies
2021 Participating artist on a six-month Drawing Research programme with CAS (Chapel Arts Studios) resulting in a group residency
2018 Atelier Circulaire, Centre d’Arts Imprimés, Montreal
Public Collections
Wiltshire County Council, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Publications
2021 CONNECT: people, art and place catalogue
2015 The Plant Project catalogue
2014 Cicatrix catalogue
2011 Other Worlds catalogue
2008 'Elvis': a picture book story about an egret of that name; a 'white settler' from Africa, living on the banks of an English river. (Reviewed by Geoff Dubber in The School Librarian of Autumn 2008)
