art career

Attended courses at Birmingham School of Art, West of England College of Art and Dudley College of Education N.D.D. & Teaching Diploma 1954-1960

FULL TIME TEACHING :

Experience in High school art education ..6 years

Lecturer in Art for 14 Years - 1966-1980--Colleges of Education in London UK,

and in Auckland New Zealand:

FULL TIME STUDIO POTTER :

Functional and table ware as well as more expressive Art ceramic pieces that employ personal imagery, unique textured surfaces and intense colour: 24 years

RESIDENT ARTIST :

Northern Arizona university 1988 .

Banff Centre, Canada 3 months 1990 ,

Kecskemet Hungary 2 months 1992.

ARTS COUNCIL OF NZ GRANTS :

For personal development and major solo exhibition 1988.

Travel grant for glaze study 1989 .

For major project : Computer as an art visualisation tool 1994.

Travel grant for conference presentation in Helsinki

TEACHING WORKSHOPS:

New Zealand 1973 to the present.....

over 100 workshops in NZ

Short term teaching, Otago Poly., Wanganui Poly., Northland Poly.,ASA Art School.

INTERNATIONAL-

Canada-Alberta,Ontario.Red Deer

North Wales.

Ireland :Kilkenny

USA :Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Florida,San Diego,SantaRosa, Santa Ana

Santa Barbara,Cerra Cosa,Phoenix, Ithaca, Colorado, Vermont, Illinois ,

Oregon.New Mexico Utah,

Australia : Wollongong,Newcastle,Brisbane ,Ipswich, Maroochydore,

Rockhampton, Cairns, Townsville,

Adelaide, Tamworth, Perth, Kalgoorlie,Sydney,Melbourne, Hobart

GUEST SPEAKER.

NCECA San Diego 1993

NZ potters conference : Nelson 1989, Dunedin 1993.

Welsh Ceramic Biennial : Aberystwyth 1994

Network Conference, Helsinki, Finland 1996

Northern Potters Biennial, England 2000

New Mexico potters conference, Guost Ranch 2004

PUBLISHING :

Regular articles for NZ Potter from 1975.to 1997

Ceramic Review London 1993 1994 1995.

Pottery in Australia : 1994

Clay Times USA : 2005.

Glaze Texture Posters and cds : 2004

CERAMIC ART AND POTTERY in major permanent collections in New Zealand, ......Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Napier, Lower Hutt, Wanganui. NZ Foreign Affairs collection,NZ Ambassies-world wide

Private collections : England, USA, Canada, Australia

Extensive solo exhibition record. Several Government commissions

Regular exhibitor in New Zealand group exhibitions since 1973

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