1996 – 1998 Royal College of Art, London. MA Printmaking
1992 – 1996 University of Reading. BA Fine Art
2024 – Elected an associate member of the R.E, Society of Painter-Etchers, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE)
EXHIBITIONS
2024 July – Aug Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Directors cut.
2024 May – June RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 June – Oct Balance and Form – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton. (Joint Show with Takahashi McGill)
2023 June – Aug Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2023 June – July Summer Exhibition, Sculpture Lounge, Holmfirth
2022 March – April Northern Lights – A Ten Year Retropective, Saul Hey Gallery, Manchester .
The exhibition celebrates the artistic journey of New Light’s award winning artists over the last ten years. Prize winners from every New Light Prize Exhibition since 2011.
2021 Sept – Jan ‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2021 July Summer Show, Sculpture Lounge, Holmfirth
2020 Nov Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London.
2020 Oct Let’s Pop, pop up show with Studio Miracolo, Paris
2020 January London Art Fair with The Columbia Road Gallery
2018 June – Aug 19 ‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018, 250th Year Anniversary, Royal Academy, London
2017 -18 ‘New Light Art Prize’ Touring show : The Bowes Museum, Durham, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Bankside Gallery,London & Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle
2017 Sept ‘Summer Selection’, Marlow Gallery, Melbourne Estate, Derbyshire
2017 May ‘Figures and Forms’, Marlow Gallery, Melbourne Estate, Derbyshire
2017 April ‘Earth, Water, Air’, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, West Yorkshire
2016 June ‘New Light Art Prize’ ‘Panter & Hall Gallery’, Pall Mall, London
2016 June ‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy, London’
2016 May ‘Juxtaposition, Contemporary Printmakers’, The Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2015 – 16 Oct ‘New Light Art Prize’ Touring show starting at The Bowes Museum, Durham, The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate, ‘Panter & Hall’ Pall Mall, London
2015 – Sept ‘Four Corners of Craft’ The truman Brewery, Tent London, London Design Festival
2015 – June ‘Summer & Autumn’ exhibition’, Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2014 – Sept 7th International printmaking Biennial’ Douro, Portugal
2014 – Sept ‘The Royal Academy of Arts in Yorkshire’. The Zillah Bell Gallery, Thisk, North Yorkshire
2014 – June ‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’ 2014, Royal Academy, London
2013 – Sept ‘Unfolding Colour’, Three printmakers, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK
2013 – June ‘Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’ 2013, Royal Academy, London
2013 – Feb ‘Affordable Art Fair’, Brussels with Onsite Gallery.
2012 – Sept ‘BITE’ Artists making prints, MALL GALLERIES, London
2011 – August ‘NeST’ Barnard Castle, Durham – pop up exhibition by the Biscuit Factory
2011 – March – Sept ‘Spring & Summer Exhibition’ featured artist, The Biscuit Factory. Newcastle
2011 – Jan ‘Small Print – Big Impression’ Contemporary mini prints touring show.
2010 – Oct ‘Flourish Award’ West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield
2010 – March ‘Organic’ four person show, WYPW Mirfield
2010 – Feb ‘Twelve Printmakers’ Artsmill gallery, Linden Mill, Hebden Bridge
2000 – Aug ‘One Year On’ Jill George Gallery, Soho, London
1998 – Oct ‘The Gallery’ Wimbledon, London
1998 – June ‘Summer Show’ Royal College of Art, London
1998 – June ‘Renaissance’ Oxo Tower Wharf, London
1998 – July ‘Postgraduate Printmaking in London’ Clifford Chance Exhibition 13, London
1997/98/99 ‘R.C.A Secret’ Royal College of Art, London
1997 November ‘Spaces’ Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art
1997 May – June ‘The Large Edition’ A survey of British Printmaking Malvern Library Gallery
Solo Shows
2016 April ‘Piecing The Landscape’ The Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2012 May ‘Somewhere In-between’ Duckett & Jeffreys Gallery, Malton North Yorkshire
2011 Oct. ‘The Good Life’ The Corner Gallery, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2011 Oct. ‘Uncluttered’ West Yorkshire Print Workshop’ Mirfield
2011 June ‘Emma Lawrenson’ Huddersfield Art Gallery
AWARDS
2024 Winner of the St Cuthberts Mill Award for a work on paper at the RE Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery. 2024 Winner of the Jackson’s Art Award, Artist Support Pledge Prize. 2015 Winner of The New Light Art Prize – Printmakers Award (2015) Zillah Bell Printmaker’s Prize
2013 Shortlisted for ‘In Glorious Colour’ Saatchi Gallery
2012 Nominated for ‘printmaker of the Year’ PRINTFEST
2010 Winner of the ‘Flourish Award’ for excellence in Printmaking 2010
1999 Winner of the ‘Oriana P&O Award’ Royal College of Art, Summer Show 1999. Chosen from all Fine Art Disciplines
1997 & 98 Finalist of the ‘Renaissance’ Aylsford Newsprint Competition
1998 Finalist of the ‘Student Print Biennale’
Collections
The Diploma Collection R.E – Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina
Kings University, London
National Gallery of Ireland
Royal College of Art archives
Clifford Chance, London CBRE Global Investors, London
Private collections throughout the world.