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B.A.(Hons) Fine Art. Manchester Polytechnic

M.Phil. Fine Art. University of Leeds

Sound Scape with Julia Harding for Festival of Contemporary Music for All, CoMA, on

March 17^th 2024 at St. Peter’s Church, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

“Prunings” Festival of Contemporary Music, “Streaming Blue” . St. Margaret’s Church, Whalley Range, and  Philips Park, Manchester.”  Photos by Lorna Green,  composed music by Manchester CoMA led by Ellen Sargen.

Lockdown. CV-Red early April  and CV-Black  late May. Two sculptures about the Coronavirus.

The Big Draw Private Commission – The pencils are painted in each member of the family’s favourite colour.

Quarry with music by Julia Harding. Bollington Festival, May 2019 and Stockport Art Gallery, September 2019 – included in Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition.

Framed for KEMS Concert Band for The Barnaby Festival, 2018, Macclesfield. Painted wood, painted steel and copper leaves.

Sound Scape with Julia Harding, composer. Minimalist Art in Nature and Music performances and installation.
Performances in 2016 at Charles Roe House, Macclesfield and, in 2017 Thursday Lates at Manchester Art Gallery, The Dome, Buxton Festival Fringe and The Lowry, Salford.

Power Flowers. Stockport Art Gallery

Pool. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University.

Gold and Black. Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Western Australia,

The Bell and the Arch: Fragments. Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn, Cheshire

Water, Earth to Growth. Friends of the Earth/Opportunities for Women, London.

Imagine a World. Watermans Art Centre, London

Sculptural Environment. Salford Art Gallery

Manchester Open Exhibition 2024. Home, Manchester.

“Les Nuits des Forêts” – Forest Creations. Projects by individual artists in Australia, Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, South Africa, and Spain for AiNIN – Artists in Nature International Network.

If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022. 15th November 2023- 22nd January 2024. The Hepworth, Wakefield and Saatchi Gallery, London

From My Back door. Cheshire Artists Network C-A-N. Hill Farm, Sandbach, Cheshire

Big Stones. Film with specially composed sounds and music by CoMA Manchester for CoMA

International Contemporary Music Festival. Match 2022.

12x12x12+Nature. Nature Art Cube Exhibition of Geumgang Nature Art Pre-biennale 2021, 2023. South Korea.

Cheshire Artists Network Exhibition, C-A-N,  at Jobling Gowler Law Ltd., Macclesfield, Cheshire

“Art of the Everyday” – Manchester Academy of Fine Art Exhibition, MAFA, at Gallery Oldham.

Conversations in Sculpture – Royal Society of Sculptors, North and Midlands, exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery included in Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019.

The News: Remember, Remember for Cheshire Artists Network (CAN) Exhibition “War & Peace” at Chester Cathedral.

Oak Tree, Commissioned by McGarvey Jones Financial Planning, Manchester, for the Board Room.

The Giving Tree, commissioned by Tarporley War Memorial Hospital, Cheshire.

“Prickly Wall” and “Curved Straights” with AiNIN, Art in Nature International Network on Nov 29th at 12pm worldwide in ArtCOP21 International Art Festival in conjunction with COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Paris, 30th Nov to Dec 11th 2015.

“Between Sky and Earth” Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Bienniale Exhibition. Korean Nature Artists Association – YATOO. Gongju, Republic of Korea.

The Great War Remembered. Cheshire Artists Network Commemoration of Those Involved in World War 1. Venues throughout Cheshire and including RAF Museum, Cosgrove.

El Eco del Pasada – Echo from the Past for Tufi’Arte an international symposium organised by AiNiN – Artists in Nature International Network, Tufia, Gran Canaria.

“La Mouette/The Seagull” for Usine Utopik’s 2nd Symposium, ‘Bords de Vire’ in Saint Lô and Tessy-sur-Vire, Normandy, France.

“Falling Leaves” for ‘The Sculpture Show’, Harold Martin Botanic Gardens, University of Leicester.

“Hope 3 and Endless Column of Misery” for ‘The Great War – Personal Responses’, by Cheshire Artists Network. Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham, Cheshire.

“La Cloche Perdue” for ‘Fantastiques’ within Sentier 2013, Hautecour, Savoie, France, organised by Lez’Arts en Adret.

“Red” for 1st Olive Wood Symposium organised by Sculpture Network, Gangelt, Germany

“River” Commissioned by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council for the entrance to the Leisure Centre

Liber Planetarum for A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden at The Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester.

Blue Bird for 3R’s: Reclaimed, Recycled, Raw Sculpture Trail in the Vale of Belvoir, Belvoir.

Blooming Branches for artsCape Biennial 2010. Byron Bay, NSW, Australia

Scratch the Surface- Dig a Little Deeper – Symposium and Conference.Organised by Elevate East Lancashire.

The Bollington Labyrinth, with Jeff Teasdale for the Bollington Festival, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Snowdrops for Cambo, Cambo House, Kingsbarns, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Solar Light at Galerija Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania for Kaunas Mene:Kontekstai – Kaunas in Art:Contexts. Contemporary Art Festival in nine venues in the city.

Une Rivière pour l’Arc Mosellan. 1er Symposium International de Sculpture de l’Arc Mosellan, Buding, France

Saver > Screens. Commission for The Co-operative Financial Services, Manchester

Timescale. Kelloe, Durham

“Verso l’Inizio – Towards the Beginning” with Carlotta Brunetti for Humus Park – International Land Art Meeting, Pordenone, Italy

Spring, Summer and Autumn, 1, 2 and 3 for Something Beautiful in Tatton Park, Knutsford, for Cheshire’s Year of Gardens 2008

Fresh Air 2007, The Quenington Sculpture Trust, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Art in Gardens, Research and Development Bursary. Cheshire County Council

Bouquet, For Windmill Hill Primary School, Runcorn, Cheshire.

Open Space, Green Heart Partnership – Lead artist

Swell Sculpture Festival 2005. Currumbin, Queensland, Australia

Chemin d’Art. Saint-Flour, France

River for the Botanic Garden Sculpture in the Garden; a celebration of the RBS Centenary. Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester.

“Look, Reflect and Recover” 1 and 2. North East NHS Surgery Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead

Enjoy, View and Use

Lead artist for Ley Orchard Village Green, Willersey, Gloucestershire

3^rd International Artists’ Symposium. Milton Keynes, UK

Marquer d’une Pierre Blanche. Les Doigts d’Art, Salins les Bains, France

Flower Cow-er for CowParade Manchester 2004 – promotion cow.

Garden of Achievement. Newall Green High School, Manchester

Enjoy, View and Use. Worcester Park, Surrey. Land art in park in housing development

Doors of Perception  for PeatPolis.nl, Barger-Compascuum, The Netherlands .

Stones of Life – Journey of Silver. Wharton Junior School, Winsford, Cheshire

Play, Perform and Picnic. Penticton. Okanagan/Thompson International  Sculpture Symposium, British Colombia , Canada

Power Flowers for Saint-Lô.  Maîtres des Lieux.  Saint-Lô, France

Reactions, Exit Art, New York

Flower of the Forest. Keum River International Nature Art Symposium, Kongju, Korea .

Wald, Apfelbaum, Farbe, Leben. Kraftplatzroas, Irdning, Austria

Water-Fall. Covent Garden Flower Festival, London

5 Christchurch Circles.   Art in the Park 2000, Christchurch, New Zealand

Drink Me! onetree.  Knutsford, Edinburgh, Welbeck, Bristol, London.

Earthwork Olympus. Cribb’s Causeway Shopping Centre, Bristol.

The Chain and the Wheel. South Gloucestershire Council/Sustrans. Bristol

Meet, Sit and Talk, Conversation, Roof Garden.  Chancellors Court, Leeds University.

warp.weft. Rochdale Partnership/Canalside SRB.

Wave. Sculpture by the Sea. Bondi Headlands, NSW, Australia .

Once upon a Time. Dartington Primary School/ Dept. for Earthen Studies, University of Plymouth, Devon

Power Flower. ’98 China Changchun International Invitation Exhibition of Sculpture. Sited 2003 in the World Sculpture Park, Changchun

Sun Wall/Earth Wall. Ceramics Biennale, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

Hebden Bridge Sculpture Trail, Yorkshire

Look Round in Anger. The Coventry Gallery, London

Open Air Sculpture Exhibition, Wysing Arts, Cambridge

Stay, Live and Sit.  Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Monash University, Melbourne.

Hope. Miss-ing, 37 Raüme. Berlin Festival.

Die Kluft. On the Brink, Leeds University Gallery.

The Doors are open ..  Das Andere Gedächtnis. Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg.

Hope. Budapest Spring Festival.  Demarco Eastern European Foundation.

Patch of Light.  Norfolk Naturalists Trust, Foxley Wood.

Leeds Castle. Women’s Sculpture Show, Maidstone, Kent

Oxford Sculpture Project.  Boars Hill, Oxford.

Littoral Art, Guernsey Festival, Channel Islands

Dublin Divide. International Conference on Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Span. New Directions, New Attitudes. Richard Demarco Gallery in Sarajevo.

Homage to Trees.  Trees, Woods and the Green Man. Common Ground. Styal, Cheshire

Sculptor at Work. Fishguard Music Festival, Wales

From the Ruins, Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park 2. Dorset, England

Manchester Academy of Fine Art

Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Dr. Barbara Oldham Bursary 2017 for “Quarry”

Professional Development Bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company for “Sound Scape”

Architecture 2000. Commendations by Leeds City Council for Meet, Sit and Talk, Conversation and Roof Garden.

Arts Council England – North West

North West Arts Board

British Council, Australia

British Council, USA

British Council, Scotland .

Leeds Metropolitan University, Landscape Design

Leeds University, Fine Art

Manchester University, Landscape and Planning

Universities throughout UK and abroad, Fine Art and Landscape Architecture

Writes for a-n for Artists Magazine, on international projects.

worked with UK Waste, now Biffa, on ideas for landfill sites

worked with Christchurch City Council, New Zealand , on ideas for river estuary.
Wide experience of projects/workshops in schools – hold Advanced Disclosure
Invited by Sheils Flynn Ltd, Landscape Architects, to be on the team for the International Design Competition for Maghtab Park, Malta.

Royal Society of Sculptors– FRSS

Landscape and Arts Network

AiNIN – Art in Nature International Network

Manchester Academy of Fine Art

Cheshire Artists Network